Redescription of the red-striped soft scale, Pulvinaria tenuivalvata (Newstead), with a new synonymy (Hemiptera, Coccomorpha, Coccidae)

By

Abdel-Razak, Soad
Matile-Ferrero, Daniele
Souiler-Perkins, Adeline

Type

Article

Date of Publication

2017

Original Publication

ZooKeys

Volume

647

Pages

101-107

Subjects

Coccidae , Egypt , Pest , Sugarcane , synonymy

Contributed by

Pensoft Publishers

Language

English

Published by

Sofia, Bulgaria Pensoft Publishers

Identifiers

DOI: https://doi.org/10.3897/zookeys.647.11225

 

Abstract

The soft scale, Pulvinaria tenuivalvata (Newstead, 1911), is a major pest of sugarcane in Egypt. This paper provides a redescription and illustration of the adult female based on a microscopic study of the morphology of several adult female specimens and of the type series illustrated by De Lotto (1965) on citronella grass from Uganda. Two paratypes of Pulvinaria saccharia De Lotto, 1964 are also studied and the name is placed here as a junior synonym of P. tenuivalvata.