Valid Names Results

Mixorthezia monticola Konczné Benedicty & Kozár in Kozár, 2004 (Ortheziidae: Mixorthezia)

Nomenclatural History

• Mixorthezia monticola Konczné Benedicty & Kozár in Kozár 2004: 196. Type data: ECUADOR: Cotopaxi, 1973, J. Balogh.. Holotype, female, by original designation Type depository: Budapest: Plant Protection Institute, Hungarian Academy of Sciences, Hungary; accepted valid name Notes: The slide contains a paratype female too, holotype on the right side, marked. Five slides with paratypes contain five females (ec 13, 15, 16, 19). Deposited in PPIH. Illustr.

Common Names

Ecological Associates

Hosts:

Families: 1 | Genera: 1

Geographic Distribution

Keys

• Kozar2004: pp.176-177 ( Adult (F) ) [Key to the species of Mixorthezia]

Remarks

• Systematics: This species is similar to M. reynei, but differs by the absence of the group of spines on the distal end of the femur (Kozár, 2004).
• Biology: Specimens were collected in moss and forest litter (Kozár, 2004).
• General Remarks: Original description and illustration in Kozár (2004).

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