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Issue: Vol. 5555 No. 1: 17 Dec. 2024
Type: Article
Published: 2024-12-17
DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.5555.1.9
Page range: 125-133
Abstract views: 218
PDF downloaded: 14

New species of Coccidella Hambleton and Rhizoecus Kunckel d’Herculais from South America (Hemiptera: Rhizoecidae)

United States Department of Agriculture; Agricultural Research Service; Henry A. Wallace Beltsville Agricultural Research Center; Systematic Entomology Laboratory; 10300 Baltimore Ave; Beltsville; MD 20705; USA
Department of Biological Sciences; Towson University; 8000 York Rd; Towson; MD 21252; USA
Hemiptera Coccomorpha Coccoidea root mealybug Acropyga taxonomy trophobiosis

Abstract

Two new species of root mealybugs (Hemiptera: Rhizoecidae) from South America are described and illustrated based on the morphology of the adult females: Coccidella advena Schneider & LaPolla, sp. nov. from Peru and Rhizoecus peripotaro Schneider & LaPolla, sp. nov. from Guyana and Peru. Both species were collected with colonies of Acropyga ants (Hymenoptera: Formicidae) but only R. peripotaro was found to be trophobiotic; C. advena was ignored by the ants and is considered to be free-living. A guide to aid in identification is provided for each species.

 

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