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Issue: Vol. 4750 No. 3: 12 Mar. 2020
Type: Correspondence
Published: 2020-03-12
DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.4750.3.11
Page range: 439–440
Abstract views: 85
PDF downloaded: 4

Report on two African mealybug species (Hemiptera: Sternorrhyncha: Coccomorpha)

Department of Life Sciences, The Natural History Museum, Cromwell Road, London SW7 5BD.
Muséum national d’Histoire naturelle, Entomologie, CP 50, UMR 7205 MNHN-CNRS, ISYEB, Institut Systématique, Evolution, Biodiversité, 57, rue Cuvier, CP 50, F-75005, Paris.
Hemiptera Sternorrhyncha Coccomorpha

Abstract

Most mealybug species in the Afrotropical Region have been described or redescribed adequately and their identities are now well established. The species are listed in the catalogue of world species by Ben-Dov (1994) and in ScaleNet, an online database of the scale insects (García-Morales et al. 2019). The genera found in South Africa, and their type species, were discussed by Millar (2002). However, two species remain that have not been discussed since they were described, and their identities remain obscure. Here we discuss these species.

 

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