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 superbus (Leonardi) Macrocerococcus superbus Leonardi, 1907 : 152 . Ceroputo volynicus Nasonov, 1908 : 472 . Synonymy by Borchsenius, 1949 : 296 . Ceroputo superbus ; Lindinger, 1912 : 65 . Change of combination. Phenacoccus seurati Vayssière, 1927 : 109 . Synonymy by Balachowsky, 1953b : 304 . Macrocerococcus tauricus Borchsenius, 1948 : 33 . Synonymy by Danzig, 1999 : 84 . Macrocerococcus kiritshenkoi Borchsenius, 1949 : 298 . Synonymy by Danzig, 1999 : 84 . Puto tauricus ; Tereznikova, 1975a : 240 . Change of combination. Puto superbus ; Tereznikova, 1975a : 241 . Change of combination. Macrocerococcus kiritzhenkoi ; Tang, 1992 : 398 . Misspelling of species name. Puto kiritshenkoi ; Ben-Dov, 1994 : 424 . Change of combination. Puto superbus was described from Tempio, Sardinia, Italy , on unidentified species of grass ( Poaceae ) in 1907 by G. Leonardi. We have examined specimens from the type series that have identical data as the lectotype and also were mounted from dried specimens included in Chermotheca Italica ( Leonardi, 1909 ). We agree with the illustration of this species given by Marotta and Tranfaglia (1993) . We also have examined a wingless adult male from Fürth, Germany , on grass and it possesses eight eyes in addition to the lateral ocelli and one pair of lateral filaments. There is a possibility that P. superbus encompasses more than one species. Marotta and Tranfaglia (1985) discussed the variation in the dorsal tubular ducts in the cerarii but later ( Marotta & Tranfaglia, 1993 ) determined that P. superbus lacked dorsal ducts entirely. Specimens with these ducts were identified as P. tauricus . Danzig (1999) again placed P. tauricus as a junior subjective synonym of P. superbus . A careful analysis of all species in the genus is required to sort out their true identity. For this paper we have studied types of the junior synonyms Puto kiritshenkoi (Borchsenius) , Puto tauricus (Borchsenius) and Phenacoccus seurati Vayssière but had insufficient series of specimens to come to definitive conclusions about synonyms.