Valid Names Results

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

Nomenclatural History

• Mixorthezia peruviana Konczné Benedicty & Kozár in Kozár 2004: 204. Type data: PERU: Pucallpa, 1-4/10/1971, J. Balogh.. Holotype, female, by original designation Type depository: Budapest: Plant Protection Institute, Hungarian Academy of Sciences, Hungary; accepted valid name Notes: Paratypes: 7 females on 6 slides, from same locality (B 24, 25, 26). 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: Similar to M. nuda, but differs by having wax plates around coxae, and the presence of submarginal dorsal wax plates (Kozár, 2004).
• Biology: Specimens were collected in forest litter and moss (Kozár, 2004).
• General Remarks: Original description and illustration in Kozár (2004).

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