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Issue: Vol. 1583 No. 1: 12 Sep. 2007
Type: Correspondence
Published: 2007-09-12
DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.1583.1.8
Page range: 65–68
Abstract views: 69
PDF downloaded: 25

The bamboo mealybugs Balanococcus kwoni n.sp. and Palmicultor lumpurensis (Takahashi) (Hemiptera, Pseudococcidae)

Dipartimento Agronomia Ambientale e Produzioni Vegetali – Entomologia, Università di Padova, Viale dell’Università 16, 35020 Legnaro, Italy
Zoological Institute, Russian Academy of Sciences, Universitetskaya 1, 199034 St. Petersburg, Russia
Hemiptera Pseudococcidae

Abstract

The purpose of this paper is to describe a new species of Balanococcus Williams that was previously misidentified as Palmicultor bambusum Tang.

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