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Puto caucasicus Hadzibejli

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Puto caucasicus Hadzibejli

Puto caucasicus Hadzibejli, 1956: 515.

We examined the lectotype and two other adult females of this species, which were described from Abies species (Pinaceae) from southwestern Georgia. Ilya Gavrilov also examined other type specimens housed in the ZISP. The adult females have 8-segmented antennae with segment III about twice the length of the others and with pseudoarticulation, and each trochanter possesses two (rarely three) campaniform sensilla. The presence of spurs at the base of the claw and a well-developed claw denticle (Danzig, 1999, figure 4), as well as the distribution of intersegmental sensilla on the antennae of these specimens (Table 1), are features consistent with other species of Puto. Ilya Gavrilov also examined first-instar nymphs and stated that they have 6- or 7-segmented antennae and adult males have 5 pairs of unicorneal eyes.

Notes

Published as part of Han, Sarah I., 2011, A study of the scale insect genera Puto Signoret (Hemiptera: Sternorrhyncha: Coccoidea: Putoidae) and Ceroputo Šulc (Pseudococcidae) with a comparison to Phenacoccus Cockerell (Pseudococcidae), pp. 1-22 in Zootaxa 2802 on page 12, DOI: 10.5281/zenodo.207286

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Biodiversity

Family
Pseudococcidae
Genus
Puto
Kingdom
Animalia
Order
Hemiptera
Phylum
Arthropoda
Scientific name authorship
Hadzibejli
Species
caucasicus
Taxon rank
species

References

  • Hadzibejli, Z. K. (1956) A new species of the genus Puto Sign. (Homoptera, Coccoidea) from the mountain zone of Georgia. Soobshchenya Akademii Nauk Gruzinskoy SSR, 17, 515 - 518.
  • Danzig, E. M. (1999) [Mealybugs of the genus Puto Signoret (Homoptera, Pseudococcidae) from Russia and adjacent countries.] (in Russian) Entomologicheskoye Obozrenie, 78, 79 - 91.