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Issue: Vol. 5570 No. 1: 16 Jan. 2025
Type: Article
Published: 2025-01-16
DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.5570.1.5
Page range: 119-137
Abstract views: 73
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A new species of the genus Puto Signoret (Hemiptera: Coccomorpha: Putoidae) from China and redescription of Puto huangshanensis Wu

The Key Laboratory for Silviculture and Conservation of Ministry of Education; Beijing Forestry University; Beijing 100083; China
The Key Laboratory for Silviculture and Conservation of Ministry of Education; Beijing Forestry University; Beijing 100083; China
Institute of Entomology; Guizhou University; The Provincial Special Key Laboratory for Development and Utilization of Insect Resources; Guizhou University; Guiyang; 550025; China
The Key Laboratory for Silviculture and Conservation of Ministry of Education; Beijing Forestry University; Beijing 100083; China
Hemiptera Sternorrhyncha taxonomy adult male

Abstract

The scale insect genus Puto Signoret (Hemiptera: Coccomorpha: Putoidae) has a mainly Nearctic and Palaearctic distribution but one species is known from Oriental China and a second from the Palaearctic part of China prior to this study. Here we describe and illustrate the adult female and male of a new species, Puto sinensis Zheng & Wu, sp. nov., from Oriental China. We also redescribe and illustrate the adult female and male of Puto huangshanensis Wu, 2001 and provide diagnostic characters for both species. In addition, an identification key to the Old World species of Puto based on the adult female, and a key to the world adult males of Puto are provided.

 

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