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Issue: Vol. 367 No. 1: 25 Nov. 2003
Type: Article
Published: 2003-11-25
DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.367.1.1
Page range: 1–6
Abstract views: 67
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Description of a new species of Ovaticoccus Kloet (Hemiptera: Coccoidea, Eriococcidae) from Belize, with remarkably large hind coxae and causing leaf-curl galls

Department of Entomology, The Natural History Museum, Cromwell Road, London SW7 5BD, UK
Department of Entomology, The Natural History Museum, Cromwell Road, London SW7 5BD, UK
Hemiptera Ovaticoccus amplicoxae sp. nov. scale insect Eriococcidae Belize leaf curling

Abstract

A new species of eriococcid scale insect, Ovaticoccus amplicoxae, is described from Belize. The species has enormous hind coxae, unlike any described so far in this genus, or in related genera. In life, the species galls the leaves to such an extent that it has been impossible to identify the host plant.

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