A taxonomic revision of the Kermesidae (Hemiptera: Coccoidea) in Israel, with a description of a new species
Author
Spodek, Malkie
Author
Ben-Dov, Yair
text
Zootaxa
2014
3781
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journal article
36881
10.11646/zootaxa.3781.1.1
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Key to the adult females of
Kermesidae
species of
Israel
1. Venter with a submarginal band of tubular ducts 2–4 ducts wide.............
Nidularia balachowskii
Bodenheimer
(
Fig.41
)
- Venter with a submarginal band of tubular ducts 10–30 ducts wide............................................... 2
2. Legs fully-developed; dorsum with seta-pore clusters......................................................... 3
- Legs reduced to 3 segments or absent; dorsum without seta-pore clusters..........................................5
3. Dorsum with tubular ducts; anal lobes quadrate shaped, each with more than 5 setae....
Kermes greeni
Bodenheimer
(
Fig.9
)
- Dorsum without tubular ducts; anal lobes rectangular shaped, each with fewer than 5 setae........................... 4
4. Dorsal median circular spots present*.......................................
Kermes nahalali
Bodenheimer
(
Fig.25
)
- Dorsal median spots absent..............................................
Kermes spatulatus
Balachowsky
(
Fig.33
)
5. Antennae reduced to 1 segment; legs absent..................................
Kermes echinatus
Balachowsky
(Fig.1)
- Antennae 3–6 segmented; legs reduced to 3 segments with claw..
Kermes hermonensis
Spodek & Ben-Dov
,
sp. nov.
(
Fig.17
)