A review of the genus Saccharicoccus Ferris, 1950 (Hemiptera: Coccomorpha: Pseudococcidae) in China, with description of a new species
Author
Zhang, Jiang-Tao
Author
Wu, Bo-Wen
Author
Wu, San-An
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Zootaxa
2018
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10.11646/zootaxa.4375.1.7
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Saccharicoccus isfarensis
(
Borchsenius, 1949
)
Pseudococcus isfarensis
Borchsenius 1949
: 152
.
Saccharicoccus penium
Williams 1962
: 50
;
Tang 1992
: 216
;
Wang 2001
: 93
.
Trionymus penium
(Borchsenius)
:
Danzig 1978
: 12
.
Trionymus isfarensis
(Borchsenius)
:
Tang 1992
: 167
–168.
Saccharicoccus isfarensis
(Borchsenius)
:
Danzig & Gavrilov-Zimin 2015
: 92
.
Material examined
, all from CHINA. One adult female (on 1 slide, the specimen on the slide from DNA-extracted voucher, Genbank no.
MG214904
), Zhejiang, Jiangshan City, Zhangcun Township, Shuangxikou Village [N 28° 23’, E 118° 41’], on
Poaceae
,
11.viii.2016
, coll. Jiang-Tao Zhang & Qin-Gang Dong; 1 adult female (on 1 slide), Zhejiang, Zhoushan City, Dongshan Park [N 30° 00’, E 122° 07’], on
Poaceae
,
6.viii.2016
, coll. Jiang-Tao Zhang & Qin-Gang Dong; 2 adult females (on 1 slide), Zhejiang, Zhoushan City, Taohua Island [N 29° 50’, E 122° 16’], on
Poaceae
,
4.viii.2016
, coll. Jiang-Tao Zhang & Qin-Gang Dong; 1 adult female (on 1 slide), Zhejiang, Zhoushan City, Taohua Island [N 29° 50’, E 122° 16’], on
Poaceae
,
4.viii.2016
, coll. Jiang-Tao Zhang & Qin-Gang Dong; 2 adult females (on 1 slide), Zhejiang, Ningbo City, Simingshan National Forest Park [N 29° 43’, E 121° 04’], on
Poaceae
,
2.viii.2016
, coll. Jiang-Tao Zhang & Qin-Gang Dong; 2 adult females (on 1 slide), Zhejiang, Ningbo City, Simingshan National Forest Park [N 29° 43’, E 121° 04’], on
Poaceae
,
2.viii.2016
, coll. Jiang-Tao Zhang & Qin- Gang Dong; 1 adult female (on 1 slide), Zhejiang, Ningbo City, Simingshan National Forest Park [N 29° 43’, E 121° 04’], on
Poaceae
,
1.viii.2016
, coll. Jiang-Tao Zhang & Qin-Gang Dong; 4 adult females (on 1 slide), Zhejiang, Hangzhou City, Linan District [N 30° 14’, E 119° 43’], on
Imperata
sp.? (
Poaceae
),
6.viii.2008
, coll. Jin Liu; 3 adult females (on 1 slide), Jilin, Jilin City, Songhua lake Park [N 43° 38’, E 126° 46’], on
Cyperus
sp. (
Poaceae
),
13.viii.2013
, coll. San-An Wu & Xu-Bo Wang; 1 adult female (on 1 slide), Shaanxi, Baoji City, Fengxian County [N 33° 54’, E 106° 31’], on
Poaceae
,
4.ix.1999
, San-An Wu; 3 adult female (on 2 slides), Henan, Nanyang City, Neixiang County, Xia Guan Town [N 33° 21’, E 111° 46’], on
Calamagrostis
sp. (
Poaceae
),
14.vii.1998
, coll. San-An Wu.
Host-plants.
Saccharicoccus isfarensis
is only known on
Poaceae
. In
China
, it has been recorded on
Agropyron
sp.,
Agrostis
sp.,
Beckmannia
sp.,
B. syzigachne
,
Calamagrostis
sp.,
Cyperus
sp.,
Festuca
sp.,
Imperata
sp.,
Leymus chinensis
,
Poa
sp. and
Stipa
sp. (
Tang 1992
;
Wu 1997
,
1999
,
2009a
,
2009b
;
Wang 2001
;
Tang
et al.
2012
).
Distribution.
Oriental and Palaearctic. In
China
:
Henan
,
Jilin
,
Inner
Mongolia
,
Ningxia
,
Shaanxi
,
Shanxi
and
Zhejiang
provinces (
Tang 1992
;
Wu 1997
,
1999
,
2009a
,
2009b
;
Wang 2001
;
Tang
et al.
2012
).
Biology.
Saccharicoccus isfarensis
lives under the leaf sheaths of its host-plants.