Trophobiosis between a new species of Williamsrhizoecus (Hemiptera: Coccomorpha: Rhizoecidae) and Acropyga silvestrii (Hymenoptera: Formicidae) in Tanzania
Author
Schneider, Scott A.
USDA, Agricultural Research Service, Henry A. Wallace Beltsville Agricultural Research Center, Systematic Entomology Laboratory, 10300 Baltimore Avenue, Beltsville, Maryland 20705, USA.
Author
Lapolla, John S.
Department of Biological Sciences, Towson University, 8000 York Road, Towson, Maryland 21252, USA.
text
Zootaxa
2020
2020-09-22
4853
2
283
291
journal article
8429
10.11646/zootaxa.4853.2.9
84f6c00b-9633-4481-a98e-e06b766c39c7
1175-5326
4410715
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Key to species of
Williamsrhizoecus
based on the adult female
Based on keys in
Kozár and Konczné Benedicty (2007)
and
Caballero & Ramos-Portilla (2018)
.
1. Circulus present; antenna 5 segmented.................................................................... 2
- Circulus absent; antenna 6 segmented..................................................................... 3
2. Body setae clavate; anal ring setae flagellate; with 2 circuli................................................
baskyi
- Body setae flagellate; anal ring setae clavate; with 1 circulus.............................................
epicopus
3. Multilocular disc pores present; body setae clavate, elongate, dilated only at tip; anal ring setae numbering 6–17.....
coffeae
- Multilocular disc pores absent; body setae clavate to falcate, short, stout throughout length; anal ring setae numbering 18.......................................................................................
udzungwensis
sp. n.