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Issue: Vol. 4358 No. 2: 29 Nov. 2017
Type: Article
Published: 2017-11-29
DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.4358.2.4
Page range: 295–310
Abstract views: 65
PDF downloaded: 3

A new species of Marsipococcus Cockerell & Bueker (Hemiptera: Coccomorpha: Coccidae) from Malaysia

Department of Entomology, University of Life Sciences in Lublin, ul. Leszczynskiego 7, 20–069 Lublin, Poland.
Department of Entomology, Natural History Museum, Cromwell Road, London SW7 5BD, UK.
Department of Biodiversity and Biological Systematics, The National Museum of Wales, Cardiff, CF10 3NP, UK.
Hemiptera soft scale insects key Sternorrhyncha

Abstract

The adult female, first-instar nymph, second-instar male, third-instar female, pupa and adult male of a new species of Marsipococcus Cockerell & Bueker (Hemiptera: Coccomorpha: Coccidae) from Malaysia, M. ulubendulensis Łagowska & Martin sp. n., are described and illustrated, while the second-instar female is only described. Marsipococcus is rediagnosed and a key to the adult females of the four species now placed in this genus is included.

 

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