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Issue: Vol. 5443 No. 4: 24 Apr. 2024
Type: Article
Published: 2024-04-24
DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.5443.4.5
Page range: 567-579
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A new species of Paraputo Laing 1929 (Hemiptera: Coccomorpha: Pseudococcidae) from India

National Bureau of Agricultural Insect Resources (ICAR - NBAIR); Post Bag No. 2491; H.A. Farm post; Bellary Road; Bengaluru 560 024; Karnataka; India
National Bureau of Agricultural Insect Resources (ICAR - NBAIR); Post Bag No. 2491; H.A. Farm post; Bellary Road; Bengaluru 560 024; Karnataka; India
Department of Zoology; St Joseph’s University; 36 Langford Road; Bengaluru 560 027; Karnataka; India
National Bureau of Agricultural Insect Resources (ICAR - NBAIR); Post Bag No. 2491; H.A. Farm post; Bellary Road; Bengaluru 560 024; Karnataka; India
Hemiptera Butea monosperma Sternorrhyncha mealybug Karnataka

Abstract

A new mealybug species, Paraputo blackmani Joshi, sp. n. (Hemiptera: Coccomorpha: Pseudococcidae) is described and illustrated based on adult females collected from Butea monosperma (Fabaceae), in Bengaluru Rural district, Karnataka, southern India. The new mealybug is most similar morphologically to P. mazoensis (Hall). Ants belonging to the genus Nylanderia were found tending the mealybugs; notes on the ecological associates of the mealybug and a key to adult females of all the species of Paraputo recorded from India are provided.

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