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Issue: Vol. 5168 No. 3: 22 Jul. 2022
Type: Article
Published: 2022-07-22
DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.5168.3.3
Page range: 306-318
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Two new species of mealybugs (Hemiptera: Coccomorpha: Pseudococcidae) from Japan

Faculty of Agriculture, Ehime University, Tarumi 3-5-7, Matsuyama, Ehime 790-8566, Japan; The Kyushu University Museum, Hakozaki 6-10-1, Higashi-ku, Fukuoka, 812-8581 Japan
Kamikawa Agricultural Experiment Station, Local Independent Administrative Agency Hokkaido Research Organization, Minami1sen 5, Pippu, Kamikawa-gun, Hokkaido 078-0311, Japan
Evolution, Cell Biology, & Symbiosis Unit, Okinawa Institute of Science and Technology, 1919-1 Tancha, Onna-son, Kunigami-gun, Okinawa, 904-0495, Japan
Evolution, Cell Biology, & Symbiosis Unit, Okinawa Institute of Science and Technology, 1919-1 Tancha, Onna-son, Kunigami-gun, Okinawa, 904-0495, Japan
Entomological Laboratory, Faculty of Agriculture, Kyushu University, Motooka 744, Fukuoka, 819-0395 Japan
Hokkaido molecular phylogenetic analysis morphology Okinawa Island Sternorrhyncha taxonomy Hemiptera

Abstract

Two new mealybug species (Hemiptera: Coccomorpha: Pseudococcidae), namely, Dysmicoccus kunaw Tanaka sp. nov. and Phenacoccus miruku Tanaka & Choi sp. nov., collected in Japan, are described based on the morphological characteristics of the adult females. Dysmicoccus kunaw resembles D. trispinosus (Hall 1923) and D. furcillosus Williams 2004, but differs from them in having two conical cerarian setae in each anal lobe cerarius, a considerable number of dorsal multilocular pores on the abdominal segments, and two types of oral collar tubular ducts on the venter. Phenacoccus miruku is similar to P. sisymbriifolium Granara de Willink 2007 and P. similis Granara de Willink 1983, but differs by lacking quinqelocular pores anterior to the mouthparts and translucent pores on the hind tibiae, and in the shape of the circulus. A molecular phylogenetic analysis was used to investigate the phylogenetic placements of the two new species. Keys to the species of Dysmicoccus Ferris and Phenacoccus Cockerell found in Japan are provided.

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