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Issue: Vol. 4759 No. 4: 6 Apr. 2020
Type: Article
Published: 2020-04-06
DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.4759.4.9
Page range: 584–590
Abstract views: 87
PDF downloaded: 6

Description of Diaspidiotus aetnensis sp. n. (Hemiptera: Coccomorpha:
Diaspididae) living on endemic birch in Sicily (Italy), with a key to Diaspidiotus species recorded on Betulaceae

1Dipartimento di Agricoltura, Alimentazione e Ambiente, Università degli Studi di Catania, via Santa Sofia 100, 95125 Catania, Italy.
Department of Life Sciences, The Natural History Museum, London SW7 5BD, U.K.
Dipartimento di Agricoltura, Alimentazione e Ambiente, Università degli Studi di Catania, via Santa Sofia 100, 95125 Catania, Italy.
Dipartimento di Agricoltura, Alimentazione e Ambiente, Università degli Studi di Catania, via Santa Sofia 100, 95125 Catania, Italy.
Hemiptera armoured scale Betula aetnensis Betula pendula diaspidid Mount Etna Genista aetnensis

Abstract

The adult female of a new species of armoured scale insect, Diaspidiotus aetnensis Nucifora, Watson and Mazzeo sp. n. (Hemiptera: Coccomorpha: Diaspididae), is described and illustrated. It was collected in Sicily on the endemic birch, Betula aetnensis Raf. (Betulaceae). We provide supplementary notes on Diaspidiotus alni (Marchal), D. wuenni (Lindinger) and D. lenticularis (Lindinger), and a key to the Diaspidiotus species recorded on Betulaceae worldwide.

 

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