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Issue: Vol. 3090 No. 1: 3 Nov. 2011
Type: Articles
Published: 2011-11-03
DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.3090.1.4
Page range: 57–68
Abstract views: 22
PDF downloaded: 23

A new species of Greenisca and two new species of Ovaticoccus from Italy (Hemiptera Coccoidea Eriococcidae), with a key to European genera of Eriococcidae.

University of Padova, Department of Environmental Agronomy and Plant Production -Entomology, viale dell’Università 16, 35020 Legnaro, Italy
Plant Protection Institute, Hungarian Academy of Sciences, Herman Ottó út 15. 1022 Budapest, H-1525 P.O.Box 102, Hungary
Hemiptera Felt scale insects taxonomy distribution Switzerland Palaearctic and Nearctic Regions Greenisca key Ovaticoccus key check-list Italian Eriococcidae

Abstract

Three new eriococcid species from Italy are described and illustrated, namely Greenisca oreophila sp. n. off Poaceae, and Ovaticoccus exoticus sp. n. and O. agavacearum sp. n., off Agavaceae. Their morphological relationships are discussed and keys to Greenisca and Ovaticoccus species are provided, together with a key to the Eriococcidae genera so far known in Europe. A check-list of Italian Eriococcids is added.

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