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 tubulifer
Danzig
Puto tubulifer
Danzig, 1978
: 125
.
Ceroputo tubulifer
;
Tang, 1992
: 392
. Change of combination.
Puto tubulifer
;
Ben-Dov, 1994
: 431
. Revived combination.
We examined two
paratypes
and another adult female of this Russian species and all possess large dorsal tubular ducts among the cerarii. Similar ducts extend over much of the head and thorax but on the abdomen they are present around the margins only.
Tang (1992)
transferred this species to
Ceroputo
but the morphological characteristics fit those of
Puto
.