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Issue: Vol. 4387 No. 2: 27 Feb. 2018
Type: Article
Published: 2018-02-26
DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.4387.2.8
Page range: 375–384
Abstract views: 76
PDF downloaded: 2

A new genus and species of felt scale (Hemiptera: Coccomorpha: Eriococcidae) from New Caledonia on an endemic species of Casuarinaceae 

Department of Biodiversity and Biological Systematics, The National Museum of Wales, Cardiff, CF10 3NP, UK.
ANSES, Laboratoire de la Santé des Végétaux, 755 avenue du Campus Agropolis, CS30016, FR-34988 Montferrier-sur-Lez Cedex.
Muséum national d'Histoire naturelle, Département Origines et Evolution, UMR 7205 MNHN CNRS UPMC EPHE: ISYEB, Institut de Systématique, Evolution, Biodiversité, case postale N°50, FR-75231 PARIS Cedex 05.
Hemiptera Dzumacoccus Gymnostoma endemism

Abstract

A new genus of Eriococcidae, Dzumacoccus Hodgson gen. n., is erected for a new species, Dzumacoccus baylaci Hodgson, Germain & Matile-Ferrero, feeding on Gymnostoma poissonianum, a species of Casuarinaceae endemic to New Caledonia. The adult female and first-instar nymph are described and illustrated.

 

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