A review of the genus Neogreenia MacGillivray (Hemiptera: Coccomorpha: Qinococcidae) with descriptions of two new species
Author
Zheng, Xinyi
0000-0002-7396-7488
The Key Laboratory for Silviculture and Conservation of Ministry of Education, Beijing Forestry University, Beijing 100083, China.
Author
Watson, Gillian W.
Department of Life Sciences, the Natural History Museum, Cromwell Road, London SW 7 5 BD, U. K.
Author
Zhang, Jiangtao
Key Laboratory of National Forestry and Grassland Administration on Forest Ecosystem Protection and Restoration of Poyang Lake Watershed, College of Forestry, Jiangxi Agricultural University, Nanchang, 330045, China.
Author
Tan, Zhixiang
Institute of Entomology, Guizhou University; The Provincial Special Key Laboratory for Development and Utilization of Insect Resources, Guizhou University; Guiyang, 550025, China.
Author
Wu, San’An
0000-0002-9671-9401
The Key Laboratory for Silviculture and Conservation of Ministry of Education, Beijing Forestry University, Beijing 100083, China.
sananwu@bjfu.edu.cn
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Zootaxa
2024
2024-03-04
5418
5
401
441
http://dx.doi.org/10.11646/zootaxa.5418.5.1
journal article
10.11646/zootaxa.5418.5.1
1175-5326
10779739
0DDD7278-0E9C-4979-ACB9-1915D4209282
Family
Qinococcidae Wu, 2022
Type
genus
:
Qinococcus
Wu, 2022
The family
Qinococcidae
includes 10 species in 4 genera, distributed in the Oriental and Palaearctic Regions. There are three monotypic genera,
Abrococcus
Zheng & Wu
,
Jansenus
Foldi
and
Qinococcus
Wu
; and 7 species in the genus
Neogreenia
MacGillivray
(
García Morales
et al
. 2016
,
Zheng & Wu 2023a
,
2023b
). The species in
Qinococcidae
differ from those in other coccid families by having on the adult female: (i) antennae much reduced or, if present, with 10 segments, (ii) thoracic and developed abdominal spiracles each with sieve-like disc-pores in atrium and (iii) vulva opening longitudinally; in the adult male: (i) a strongly sclerotized series of ridges forming medial sub-pentagonal shape on ventral part of epicranium and (ii) a post-tergite shaped like inverted “π”; also on the first-instar nymphs: (i) antennae 7 segmented, with the two terminal segments expanded (Wu
et al
. 2022;
Zheng & Wu 2023a
,
2023b
).