Revision of the family Asterolecaniidae (Hemiptera: Coccomorpha) in Argentina
Author
Granara de, María C.
Investigaciones Científicas y Técnicas (CONICET), Instituto Miguel Lillo 205 (4000), Tucumán
Author
Willink
Superior de Entomología “ Dr., Argentina
Author
González, Patricia
e Instituto Miguel Lillo, Universidad Nacional de Tucumán. Instituto Superior de Willink ” (INSUE), Miguel Lillo 205 (4000), Tucumán, Argentina
Author
Stumpf, Christof F.
State University of Alexandria (LSUA), Department of Biological Sciences, Alexandria,
text
Insecta Mundi
2023
2023-06-30
2023
996
1
23
journal article
10.5281/zenodo.10834645
1942-1354
10834645
2A1FB016-1B67-4861-BB8B-2011B26679F1
Mycetococcus
Ferris, 1918
Type
species.
Cerococcus ehrhorni
(
Cockerell, 1895
)
Diagnosis.
Adult female legless. Antennae reduced to 1–2 segments. With eight-shaped ducts or pores on dorsum and venter. Last abdominal segments strongly sclerotized forming a caudal process. With multilocular pores (5–10 locules) close to the spiracular peritremes.
Comments.
So far, three species are known,
Mycetococcus ehrhorni
(Cockerell)
from the
USA
on
Lithocarpus
Blume (Fagaceae)
and
Quercus
,
M. corticis
(Townsend and Cockerell)
from
Mexico
, and
M. sinensis
Gavrilov-Zimin
from
China
, on
Quercus
(
García Morales et al. 2016
)
.