Genus Pseudococcus Westwood, 1840

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• Pseudococcus Westwood, J.O. 1840. An introduction to the modern classification of insects; founded on the natural habits and corresponding organization of different families. Vol. II. London : Longman, Orme, Brown, Green and Longmans 587 pp. [447] [placed on the Official List of Generic Names in Zoology, name number 2188].

  Type species:

   Dactylopius longispinus Targioni Tozzetti, 1867 by monotypy.
• Trechocorys Curtis, J. (Ruricola) 1843. The black turtle-scale. Coccus testudo (Curtis). Gardeners' Chronicle and Agricultural Gazette 26: 443-444 [444].

  Type species:

   Coccus adonidum Linnaeus, 1758 by monotypy.
• Boisduvalia Signoret, V. 1875. Essai sur les cochenilles ou gallinsectes (Homoptères – Coccides), 15e partie. Annales de la Société Entomologique de France 5 5: 305-352 [338] [junior homonym of Boisduvalia (Diptera); an objective synonym by community of type species].

  Type species:

   Coccus laurinus Boisduval, 1867 by original designation.
• Oudablis Signoret, V. 1882. Oudablis n. gen. Annales de la Société Entomologique de France, Bulletin 6 1: clvii [clvii] [replacement name for Boisduvalia Signoret, 1875].

 

Taxonomic Decision for Synonymy

• Fernald, M.E. 1903. A catalogue of the Coccidae of the world. Bulletin of the Hatch Experiment Station of the Massachusetts Agricultural College 88: 1-360 [96] (synonymy of Trechocorys Curtis, 1843 by community of type species; synonymy of Boisduvalia Signoret, 1875; synonymy of Oudablis Signoret, 1882)

 

Distribution

States

Australian Capital Territory, New South Wales, Northern Territory, Queensland, South Australia, Tasmania, Victoria, Western Australia

IBRA and IMCRA regions

IBRA

ACT, NSW, Qld, SA: South Eastern Queensland (SEQ) ; NSW, Qld: NSW North Coast (NNC), Sydney Basin (SB) ; NSW, Qld, SA, Tas, Vic: Gawler (GAW) ; NT: Darwin Coastal (DAC), Great Sandy Desert (GSD) ; NT, Qld: Central Mackay Coast (CMC) ; NT, SA: Simpson Strzelecki Dunefields (SSD) ; Qld: Cape York Peninsula (CYP) ; Qld, SA, Tas, Vic, WA: South Eastern Highlands (SEH), Victorian Midlands (VM) ; SA: Flinders Lofty Block (FLB) ; SA, WA: Dampierland (DL) ; Tas: Tasmanian South East (TSE) ; WA: Esperance Plains (ESP)

ID Keys

(Kosztarab, M., 1996) [177] (female; northeastern North America); (Tang, F.T., 1992) [218] (female; Palaearctic & Oriental Regions); (Tang, F.T., 1992) [235-236] (female; China); (Williams, D.J. & Granara de Willink, M.C., 1992) [426-428] (female; Central and South America); (Williams, D.J. & Granara de Willink, M.C., 1992) [41] (female; Central and South America); (Danzig, E.M., 1988) [697] (female; Far East of Russia); (Williams, D.J. & Watson, G.W., 1988) [18] (female; tropical South Pacific region); (Avasthi, R.K. & Shafee, S.A., 1987) [3] (female; India); (Cox, J.M., 1987) [76] (female; New Zealand); (Cox, J.M., 1987) [14] (female; New Zealand); (Williams, D.J., 1985) [279-281] (female; Australia); (Williams, D.J., 1985) [37] (female; Australia); (Wang, T.C., 1982) [20] (female; China); (Kawai, S., 1980) [100] (female; Japan); (Tereznikova, E.M., 1975) [160] (female; Ukraine & Palaearctic Region); (Ter-Grigorian, M.A., 1973) [36, 40] (female; Armenia); (Afifi, S. & Kosztarab, M., 1967) [11] (female; world); (McKenzie, H.L., 1967) [45] (female; North America); (McKenzie, H.L., 1967) [288-289] (female; North America); (Beardsley, J.W., 1966) [405] (female; Federated States of Micronesia); (McKenzie, H.L., 1964) [255-256] (female; North America); (McKenzie, H.L., 1962) [639] (female; North America); (McKenzie, H.L., 1962) [654-655] (female; North America); (Williams, D.J., 1962) [39] (female; Britain); (McKenzie, H.L., 1960) [725] (female; North America); (McKenzie, H.L., 1960) [690] (female; North America); (Ferris, G.F., 1953) [284] (female; North America); (Ferris, G.F., 1953) [418] (female; North America); (Ferris, G.F., 1950) [22] (female; North America); (Ferris, G.F., 1950) [173] (female; North America); (Ferris, G.F., 1950) [191-192] (female; North America); (Borchsenius, N.S., 1949) [87] (female; Palaearctic Region); (Borchsenius, N.S., 1949) [92-97] (female; Palaearctic Region); (Zimmerman, E.C., 1948) [176-180] (female; Hawaii); Borchsenius 1947b [2110] (female; Pseudococcus comstocki group of species); (Lawson, P.B., 1917) [177] (female; species U.S.A. [Kansas)

 

GENERAL

Good definition and characters given by Ferris in Zimmerman, E.C. 1948. Homoptera: Sternorrhyncha. pp. 268 in Zimmerman, E.C. (ed). Insects of Hawaii. Honolulu : University of Hawaii Press Vol. 5 464 pp., Borchsenius, N.S. 1949. Insects Homoptera. suborders mealybugs and scales (Coccoidea). Family mealybugs (Pseudococcidae). Vol. VII. Fauna SSSR. Zoologicheskii Institut Akademii Nauk SSSR 38: 1–382, Ferris, G.F. 1950. Atlas of the Scale Insects of North America. (Ser. 5, vol. 5). The Pseudococcidae (Part I). Palo Alto, California : Stanford University Press 278 pp., McKenzie, H.L. 1967. Mealybugs of California with taxonomy, biology, and control of North American species (Homoptera: Cooccoidea: Pseudococcidae). Berkeley : Univ. Calif. Press 526 pp., Ter-Grigorian, M.A. 1973. Soft and armored scales (Coccoidea) mealybugs (Pseudococcidae). In Fauna of Armenian SSR. Izvestiya Akademii Nauk Armianskoi SSR. Erevan [1973]: 1–246, Tereznikova, E.M. 1975. [Coccids. In, The Fauna of Ukraine.]. Akademii Nauk Ukrains'koi SSR Instituta Zoologicheskogo 20(18): 295, Danzig, E.M. [Dantsig] 1980. Coccoids of the Far East USSR (Homoptera, Coccinea) with an analysis of the phylogeny of coccids of the world fauna. Opredeliteli po Faune SSSR 124: 1–343, Williams, D.J. 1985. Australian Mealybugs. London : British Museum (Natural History) 431 pp., Cox, J.M. 1987. Pseudococcidae (Insecta: Hemiptera). In, Duval, C.T. (ed). Fauna of New Zealand. Wellington, New Zealand : DSIR Science Information Publishing Centre Vol. 11 229 pp., Williams, D.J. & Watson, G.W. 1988. The Scale Insects of the Tropical South Pacific Region. Part 1. The armoured scales (Diaspididae). London : CAB International Institute of Entomology 290 pp., Williams, D.J. & Granara de Willink, M.C. 1992. Mealybugs of Central and South America. London, England : CAB International Institute of Entomology 635 pp., Tang, F.T. 1992. [The Pseudococcidae of China]. Taigu, Shanxi, China : Shanxi Agricultural University 768 pp. and by Kosztarab, M. 1996. Scale insects of Northeastern North America. Identification, biology, and distribution. Martinsburg, Virginia : Virginia Museum of Natural History 650 pp..

 

General References

Afifi, S. 1968. Morphology and taxonomy of the adult males of the families Pseudococcidae and Eriococcidae (Homoptera: Coccoidea). British Museum (Natural History), 2nd Report on Economic Zoology 13: 3-210 [131] (taxonomy)

Beardsley, J.W. 1966. Insects of Micronesia. Homoptera: Coccoidea. Insects of Micronesia 6: 377-562 [435] (taxonomy)

Ben-Dov, Y. 1994. A Systematic Catalogue of the Mealybugs of the World (Insecta: Homoptera: Coccoidea: Pseudococcidae and Putoidae) with Data on Geographical Distribution, Host Plants, Biology and Economic Importance. Andover, UK : Intercept Limited 686 pp. [375-376] (catalogue)

Bodenheimer, F.S. 1927. Über die für das Verbreitungsgebiet einer Art bestimmenden Faktoren. Biologisches Zentralblatt 47: 25-44 [25-44] (distribution)

Borchsenius, N.S. 1949. Insects Homoptera. suborders mealybugs and scales (Coccoidea). Family mealybugs (Pseudococcidae). Vol. VII. Fauna SSSR. Zoologicheskii Institut Akademii Nauk SSSR 38: 1-382 [90] (taxonomy, description)

Cox, J.M. 1987. Pseudococcidae (Insecta: Hemiptera). In, Duval, C.T. (ed.). Fauna of New Zealand. Wellington, New Zealand : DSIR Science Information Publishing Centre Vol. 11 229 pp. [76] (taxonomy, description)

Curtis, J. (Ruricola) 1843. The black turtle-scale. Coccus testudo (Curtis). Gardeners' Chronicle and Agricultural Gazette 26: 443-444 [844] (taxonomy)

Danzig, E.M. [Dantsig] 1980. Coccoids of the Far East USSR (Homoptera, Coccinea) with an analysis of the phylogeny of coccids of the world fauna. Opredeliteli po Faune SSSR 124: 1-343 [109, 156] (taxonomy, description)

Dunham, O. 1954. Contribuicao para o conhecimento coccideos dos 'Insecta – Homoptera' da Bahia – I. Boletim do Instituto Biologico da Bahia 1: 63-74 [67, 68, 72] (taxonomy)

Fernald, M.E. 1903. A catalogue of the Coccidae of the world. Bulletin of the Hatch Experiment Station of the Massachusetts Agricultural College 88: 1-360 [96] (catalogue)

Ferris, G.F. 1950. Atlas of the Scale Insects of North America. Series 5, v. 5. The Pseudococcidae. (Part 1). Palo Alto, California : Stanford University Press Vol. 5(2) 278 pp. [170-173] (taxonomy, description)

Ferris, G.F. 1953. Atlas of the Scale Insects of North America. v. 6. The Pseudococcidae. (Part 2). Palo Alto, California : Stanford University Press Vol. 6(2) 506 pp. [418] (taxonomy)

Granara de Willink, M.C., Scatoni, I.B., Terra, A.L. & Frioni, M.I. 1997. [Mealybugs (Homoptera, Pseudococcidae) that affect crops and wild plants in Uruguay, updated list of the host plants.] Cochinillas harinosas (Homoptera, Pseudococcidae) que afectan plantas cultivadas y silvestres en Uruguay. Agrociencia 1(1): 96-100 [98] (taxonomy, economic importance)

Kawai, S. 1972. Diagnostic notes and biology of the coccid species occurring on cultivated or wild trees and shrubs in Japan (Homoptera: Coccoidea). Bulletin of the Tokyo-To Agricultural Experiment Station 6: 1-54 [8] (taxonomy)

Kosztarab, M. 1996. Scale insects of Northeastern North America. Identification, biology, and distribution. Martinsburg, Virginia : Virginia Museum of Natural History 650 pp. [78, 176-177] (taxonomy, description)

Lawson, P.B. 1917. Scale insects injurious to fruit and shade trees. The Coccidae of Kansas. Bulletin of the University of Kansas. Biological Series 18: 161-279 [177] (taxonomy, description)

McKenzie, H.L. 1967. Mealybugs of California with taxonomy, biology, and control of North American species (Homoptera: Cooccoidea: Pseudococcidae). Berkeley : Univ. Calif. Press 526 pp. [288-289] (taxonomy, description)

Morrison, H. & Morrison, E.R. 1966. An annotated list of generic names of the scale insects (Homoptera: Coccoidea). Miscellaneous Publication United States Department of Agriculture 1015: 1-206 [24, 141, 165-166] (taxonomy, catalogue)

Pollard, G.V. & Alleyne, A.T. 1986. Insect pests as constraints to the production of fruits in the Caribbean. Proceedings of a Seminar on Pests and Diseases as Constraints in the Production and Marketing of Fruits, Barbados, October 1985: 31-61 [36] (taxonomy)

Savescu, A. (ed.) 1982. Tratat de Zoologie Agricola: Daunatorii plantelor cultivate, Vol. II. Romania : Editura Academiei Republicii Socialiste 353 pp. [259-260] (taxonomy, description)

Signoret, V. 1875. Essai sur les cochenilles ou gallinsectes (Homoptères – Coccides), 15e partie. Annales de la Société Entomologique de France 5 5: 305-352 [338] (taxonomy)

Signoret, V. 1882. Oudablis n. gen. Annales de la Société Entomologique de France, Bulletin 6 1: clvii [civii] (taxonomy)

Takahashi, R. 1958. Key to the genera of Pseudococcidae in Japan, with descriptions of three new genera and two new species. Bulletin of the Osaka (Perfecture) University 7: 1-8 [3] (taxonomy, description)

Tao, C.C.C. 1999. List of Coccoidea (Homoptera) of China. Taiwan Agricultural Research Institute, Special Publication No. 78: 1-176 [25] (taxonomy)

Targioni Tozzetti, A. 1866. Come certe cocciniglie sieno cagione di alcune melate delle piante, e di alcune ruggini; e come la cocciniglia del fico dia in abbondanza una specie di cera. Atti della Reale Accademia dei Georgofili ns 13: 115-137; App. 138-146 [122] (taxonomy)

Ter-Grigorian, M.A. 1973. Soft and armored scales (Coccoidea) mealybugs (Pseudococcidae). In Fauna of Armenian SSR. Izvestiya Akademii Nauk Armianskoi SSR. Erevan [1973]: 1-246 [39-40] (taxonomy, description)

Westwood, J.O. 1840. An introduction to the modern classification of insects; founded on the natural habits and corresponding organization of different families. Vol. II. London : Longman, Orme, Brown, Green and Longmans 587 pp. [445] (taxonomy, description)

Williams, D.J. 1962. The British Pseudococcidae (Homoptera: Coccoidea). Bulletin of the British Museum (Natural History) Entomology 12: 1-79 [6, 39] (taxonomy)

Williams, D.J. 1985. Australian Mealybugs. London : British Museum (Natural History) 431 pp. [37, 278-281] (taxonomy, description, key)

Williams, D.J. & Granara de Willink, M.C. 1992. Mealybugs of Central and South America. London, England : CAB International Institute of Entomology 635 pp. [41, 423-428] (taxonomy, description)

Williams, D.J. & Watson, G.W. 1988. The Scale Insects of the Tropical South Pacific Region. Pt. 2: The mealybugs (Pseudococcidae). London : CAB International Institute of Entomology 260 pp. [170-171] (taxonomy, description)

Xie, Y.P. 1998. [The Scale Insects of the Forest and Fruit Trees in Shanxi of China.]. Place of publication unknown : China Forestry Publishing House 147 pp. [75] (taxonomy)

Zimmerman, E.C. 1948. Homoptera: Sternorrhyncha. 268 in Zimmerman, E.C. (ed.). Insects of Hawaii. Honolulu : University of Hawaii Press Vol. 5 464 pp. [148, 175] (taxonomy, description)

 

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