Genus Pseudococcus Westwood, 1840

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Genus Pseudococcus Westwood, 1840

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)

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Western Australia

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IBRA

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..