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MICROCOCCIDAE
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<emphasis id="B96F87600AEB46962CFCFF57FED2D7B7" box="[151,281,217,240]" italics="true" pageId="196" pageNumber="197">Micrococcus</emphasis>
<bibRefCitation id="EF8A26830AEB46962D4AFF56FE24D7B6" author="Leonardi, G." box="[289,495,216,241]" pageId="196" pageNumber="197" pagination="135 - 169" refId="ref207226" refString="Leonardi, G. (1907) Contribuzione alla conoscenza delle cocciniglie Italiane. Bollettino del Laboratorio di Zoologia Generale e Agraria della R. Scuola Superior Agricoltura, Portici, 1, 135 - 169." type="journal article" year="1907">Leonardi 1907, 135</bibRefCitation>
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.
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species:
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<emphasis id="B96F87600AEB46962EE6FF57FCA5D7B7" box="[653,878,216,240]" italics="true" pageId="196" pageNumber="197">Micrococcus silvestrii</emphasis>
Leonardi
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by subsequent designation Sanderson 1909: 42.
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<emphasis id="B96F87600AEB46962CFCFEB9FEF9D615" bold="true" box="[151,306,311,338]" pageId="196" pageNumber="197">Introduction.</emphasis>
This family was revised by
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. It currently contains 2 genera (
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<emphasis id="B96F87600AEB4696297BFEB7FA57D615" box="[1296,1436,313,338]" italics="true" pageId="196" pageNumber="197">Micrococcus</emphasis>
Leonardi
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(9 species) and
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<emphasis id="B96F87600AEB46962DD9FED2FDA9D631" box="[434,610,348,374]" italics="true" pageId="196" pageNumber="197">Molluscococcus</emphasis>
Miller &amp; Williams
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(1 species)).
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<emphasis id="B96F87600AEB46962FBAFED3FB50D631" box="[977,1179,348,374]" italics="true" pageId="196" pageNumber="197">Mi. bodenheimera</emphasis>
Bytinski-Salz
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is a pest of
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to which it appears to be almost exclusively restricted. Its relationships within the
<taxonomicName id="4C1B20F10AEB469628F7FE0EFAFED6DD" authorityName="Rubsaamen" authorityYear="1899" box="[1180,1333,384,410]" infraOrder="Coccomorpha" pageId="196" pageNumber="6" rank="infraOrder">Coccomorpha</taxonomicName>
were described by Miller and Williams as being an enigma. Miller and Williams did a morphological cladistic analysis based on adult female morphology and concluded that the family was closest to the
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and
<taxonomicName id="4C1B20F10AEB46962801FE46FB2AD6A5" box="[1130,1249,456,482]" class="Insecta" family="Aclerdidae" kingdom="Animalia" order="Hemiptera" pageId="196" pageNumber="197" phylum="Arthropoda" rank="family">Aclerdidae</taxonomicName>
rather than to the
<taxonomicName id="4C1B20F10AEB46962CFCFE62FEEED541" box="[151,293,492,518]" class="Insecta" family="Eriococcidae" kingdom="Animalia" order="Hemiptera" pageId="196" pageNumber="197" phylum="Arthropoda" rank="family">Eriococcidae</taxonomicName>
and
<taxonomicName id="4C1B20F10AEB46962D30FE62FDC7D541" box="[347,524,492,518]" class="Insecta" family="Pseudococcidae" kingdom="Animalia" order="Hemiptera" pageId="196" pageNumber="197" phylum="Arthropoda" rank="family">Pseudococcidae</taxonomicName>
, as sometimes considered (
<bibRefCitation id="EF8A26830AEB46962F5EFE62FC01D541" author="Ferris" box="[821,970,491,518]" firstAuthor="Ferris" pageId="196" pageNumber="197" pagination="59 - 79" refId="ref200799" refString="Ferris, G. F. (1957 a) Notes on some little known genera of the Coccoidea (Homoptera). Microentomology, 22, 59 - 79." type="journal article" year="1957" yearSuffix="a">Ferris, 1957a</bibRefCitation>
;
<bibRefCitation id="EF8A26830AEB46962FBEFE62FBB9D541" author="Silvestri" box="[981,1138,492,518]" firstAuthor="Silvestri" pageId="196" pageNumber="197" refId="ref211382" refString="Silvestri, F. (1939) Compendio di Entomologia Applicata. Parte special, Tipografia Bellavista Portici, 974 pp." type="book" year="1939">Silvestri 1939</bibRefCitation>
). The only molecular study that has included a member of the
<taxonomicName id="4C1B20F10AEB46962E7DFD9EFD73D56D" authorityName="Silvestri" authorityYear="1939" box="[534,696,528,554]" class="Insecta" family="Micrococcidae" kingdom="Animalia" order="Hemiptera" pageId="196" pageNumber="197" phylum="Arthropoda" rank="family">Micrococcidae</taxonomicName>
(e.g.,
<taxonomicName id="4C1B20F10AEB46962E95FD9FFC41D56D" authorityName="Leonardi" authorityYear="1907" box="[766,906,529,554]" class="Insecta" family="Micrococcidae" genus="Micrococcus" kingdom="Animalia" order="Hemiptera" pageId="196" pageNumber="197" phylum="Arthropoda" rank="genus">
<emphasis id="B96F87600AEB46962E95FD9FFC41D56D" box="[766,906,529,554]" italics="true" pageId="196" pageNumber="197">Micrococcus</emphasis>
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sp. from
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) is that of T. Kondo &amp; L.G Cook (unpublished data based on a Bayesian phylogenetic analysis of the family
<taxonomicName id="4C1B20F10AEB46962FB8FDBAFBF2D509" box="[979,1081,564,590]" class="Insecta" family="Coccidae" kingdom="Animalia" order="Hemiptera" pageId="196" pageNumber="197" phylum="Arthropoda" rank="family">Coccidae</taxonomicName>
using DNA sequences based on 18S, 28S and partial CO1 data), who found that the Microccoidae fell within the
<taxonomicName id="4C1B20F10AEB46962867FDD6FBBDD535" box="[1036,1142,600,626]" class="Insecta" family="Coccidae" kingdom="Animalia" order="Hemiptera" pageId="196" pageNumber="197" phylum="Arthropoda" rank="family">Coccidae</taxonomicName>
. The only description of an adult male is by
<bibRefCitation id="EF8A26830AEB46962D20FDF2FDB3D5D1" author="Miller, D. R. &amp; Williams, D. J." box="[331,632,635,662]" pageId="196" pageNumber="197" pagination="199 - 247" refId="ref209066" refString="Miller, D. R. &amp; Williams, D. J. (1995) Systematic revision of the Family Micrococcidae (Homoptera: Coccoidea), with a discussion of its relationships, and a description of a gynandromorph. Bollettino del Laboratorio di Entomologia Agraria ' Filippo Silvestri'. Portici, 50, 199 - 247. [1993]" type="journal article" year="1995">Miller and Williams (1995)</bibRefCitation>
. The following diagnosis is based entirely on Miller and Williams (1995) study of the male of
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<emphasis id="B96F87600AEB46962D1CFD2FFDF4D5FD" box="[375,575,672,698]" italics="true" pageId="196" pageNumber="197">Mi. bodenheimera</emphasis>
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(
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)
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<emphasis id="B96F87600AEB46962CACFD4DFBC3D599" bold="true" box="[199,1032,707,734]" pageId="196" pageNumber="197">
Family diagnosis based on the adult male of
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<emphasis id="B96F87600AEB46962EBBFD4AFBC3D599" bold="true" box="[720,1032,707,734]" italics="true" pageId="196" pageNumber="197">Micrococcus bodenheimera</emphasis>
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(
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).
<emphasis id="B96F87600AEB46962816FD4AFB15D599" box="[1149,1246,708,734]" italics="true" pageId="196" pageNumber="197">Apterous</emphasis>
, therefore thorax membranous, without wings or hamulohalteres and associated structures. Less than
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long.
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, each short (less than
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long
<emphasis id="B96F87600AEB46962E5FFC82FB42D461" box="[564,1161,780,806]" italics="true" pageId="196" pageNumber="197">); simple (discoidal) convex pores frequent throughout,</emphasis>
particularly near margin;
<emphasis id="B96F87600AEB46962CFCFCBEFEBBD429" italics="true" pageId="196" pageNumber="197">bilocular microducts of 2 sizes, smaller pores occasional near dorsopleural setae, larger pores only on venter, most abundant on thorax</emphasis>
. Incipient mouthparts possibly present.
<emphasis id="B96F87600AEB46962F42FCDAFBEBD429" box="[809,1056,852,878]" italics="true" pageId="196" pageNumber="197">Antennae 3 segmented</emphasis>
, with only hs setae;
<emphasis id="B96F87600AEB4696296EFCDBFE07D4D5" italics="true" pageId="196" pageNumber="197">capitate setae and antennal bristles absent</emphasis>
.
<emphasis id="B96F87600AEB46962DB2FCF6FDFBD4D5" bold="true" box="[473,560,888,914]" pageId="196" pageNumber="197">Thorax</emphasis>
: spiracles normal; with well developed legs;
<emphasis id="B96F87600AEB4696284BFCF6FA86D4D5" box="[1056,1357,888,914]" italics="true" pageId="196" pageNumber="197">trochanter sensilla in a line</emphasis>
; femur unusually broad for a male scale insect;
<emphasis id="B96F87600AEB46962E25FC12FC89D4F1" box="[590,834,924,950]" italics="true" pageId="196" pageNumber="197">tibia and tarsus fused;</emphasis>
tarsal digitules capitate; claw digitules capitate.
<emphasis id="B96F87600AEB46962938FC15FF01D49D" bold="true" pageId="196" pageNumber="197">Abdomen</emphasis>
with some sclerotisation ventrally on posterior margins of segments. Caudal extensions absent (but with an “oval process” on segment VIII).
<emphasis id="B96F87600AEB46962DAEFC6AFD2ED4B9" box="[453,741,996,1022]" italics="true" pageId="196" pageNumber="197">Glandular pouches absent</emphasis>
.
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. Anal ring present dorsally on segment IX. Penial sheath short and triangular, about twice as long as wide. Aedeagus about as long as penial sheath, blunt.
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<emphasis id="B96F87600AEB46962CACFBC1FE89D32D" bold="true" box="[199,322,1103,1130]" pageId="196" pageNumber="197">Comment.</emphasis>
Because the adult male of this species is apterous, its taxonomic relationships to other
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families is bound to be difficult to establish. However, the trochanter sensilla in a line strongly suggests that this family is not close to the
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or acanthococcine
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, whilst the presence of simple convex pores and the possible fusion of abdominal segment VIII to the penial sheath suggests a possible closeness to the
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.
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