Valid Names Results
Mycetococcus Ferris, 1918 (
Asterolecaniidae)
Nomenclatural History
- Mycetococcus
Ferris
1918b: 330.
Type species: Cerococcus ehrhorni Cockerell
by original designation
.
accepted valid name
Remarks
- Structure: Adult female legless. Antennae reduced to 1–2 segments. With eight-shaped ducts or pores on dorsum and venter. Last abdominal segments strongly sclerotized forming a caudal process. With multilocular pores
(5–10 locules) close to the spiracular peritremes. (Granara de Willink et al. 2023)
- General Remarks: Definition and characters by Ferris (1918b; 1955a) and by Gill (1993).
Keys
- GranarGoSt2023: pp.3
(
Adult (F)
)
[Genera of Asterolecaniidae in Argentina]
- StumpfLa2006: pp.20-22
(
Adult (F)
)
[Genera of Nearctic region]
- Ferris1955a: pp.14
(
Adult (F)
)
[North America]
Associated References
- Ferris1918b:
description, taxonomy, pp. 330-331
- Ferris1937:
taxonomy, pp. 6
- Ferris1955a:
description, taxonomy, pp. 56
- Gavril2019:
biology, distribution, morphology, pp. 5
- Gill1993:
taxonomy, pp. 97, 103
- Koteja1974b:
taxonomy, pp. 83
- MacGil1921:
taxonomy, pp. 188-189
- Miller1996:
catalog, pp. 69
- MorrisMo1966:
taxonomy, pp. 126
- StumpfLa2001a:
distribution, taxonomy, pp. 153-156
4 Species
