A study of the scale insect genera Puto Signoret (Hemiptera: Sternorrhyncha: Coccoidea: Putoidae) and Ceroputo Šulc (Pseudococcidae) with a comparison to Phenacoccus Cockerell (Pseudococcidae)
Author
Han, Sarah I.
text
Zootaxa
2011
2802
1
22
journal article
10.5281/zenodo.207286
2be57930-4fab-46ee-9089-27e49ec71c95
1175-5326
207286
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.