Comparison of the morphology of the adult males of the rhizoecine, phenacoccine and pseudococcine mealybugs (Hemiptera: Sternorrhyncha: Coccoidea), with the recognition of the family Rhizoecidae Williams 3291
Author
Hodgson, Chris
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Zootaxa
2012
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https://biotaxa.org/Zootaxa/article/view/zootaxa.3291.1.1
journal article
10.11646/zootaxa.3291.1.1
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NEOCHAVESIA
Williams & Granara de Willink, 1992
Neochavesia
Williams & Granara de Willink, 1992: 232
(replacement name for
Chavesia
Balachowsky, 1957
).
Type
species:
Chavesia caldasiae
Balachowsky, 1957
, by original designation.
Introduction
: Eight species of
Neochavesia
are now known (
Schneider & LaPolla, 2011
) and adult males have been described for two of them (
N. caldasiae
(Balachowsky)
(
Fig. 19
) and
N. lapollai
Williams
(
Fig. 20
) (
Williams, 2004a
)). The adult male of a third species is described below. The adult females of all the known species possess well-developed protruding anal lobes, and an anal ring without cells and placed well forward of the apex of the abdomen. A generic diagnosis and a key based on the adult females are given in
Schneider and LaPolla (2011)
.
For a morphological diagnosis of the males of this genus, see key to genera above.