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Issue: Vol. 804 No. 1: 10 Jan. 2005
Type: Articles
Published: 2005-01-10
DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.804.1.1
Page range: 1–12
Abstract views: 34
PDF downloaded: 4

An account of the Pacific mealybug genus Laminicoccus Williams (Hemiptera: Coccoidea: Pseudococcidae)

Department of Entomology; The Natural History Museum, Cromwell Road, London SW7 5BD, UK
Department of Entomology; The Natural History Museum, Cromwell Road, London SW7 5BD, UK
Hemiptera Laminicoccus Pacific area Laminicoccus samoanus sp. nov. mealybugs Pseudococcidae key to species Pseudococcus pandanicola Takahashi redescribed

Abstract

The Pacific mealybug genus Laminicoccus Williams is reviewed. At present six species are assigned to the genus including a new species, Laminicoccus samoanus sp. nov., described from Western Samoa. Most of the host-plant records of these mealybugs are from monocotyledons and many of the species seem to prefer plants belonging to the families Arecaceae, Pandanaceae, and Poaceae. One or two host-plant records, nevertheless, are from dicotyledons. A key to species of Laminicoccus is provided. The mealybug Pseudococcus pandanicola Takahashi, described originally from Palau, had been included in Laminicoccus but is here reassigned to Pseudococcus and redescribed.

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