Valid Names Results

Ortheziolacoccus demeteri (Kozar & Konczne Benedicty, 1999) (Ortheziidae: Ortheziolacoccus)

Nomenclatural History

• Ortheziola demeteri Kozar & Konczne Benedicty 1999: 130-132. Type data: ETHIOPIA: Menegesca, 03/12/1980, by A. Demeter. Holotype, female, Type depository: Budapest: Plant Protection Institute, Hungarian Academy of Sciences, Hungary; accepted valid name Illustr.
• Ortheziolacoccus demeteri (Kozar & Konczne Benedicty, 1999); Kozár 2004: 450. change of combination

Common Names

Ecological Associates

Geographic Distribution

Keys

• Watson2022: pp.349-350 ( Adult (F) ) [Ortheziolacoccus in continental Africa]
• Kozar2004: pp.439 ( Adult (F) ) [Key to the species of Ortheziolacoccus]

Remarks

• Systematics: Ortheziolacoccus demeteri is unique in its unusual form of the 3rd segment of the antenna and by the absence of plate band in front of the ovisac band (Kozár & Konczné Benedicty, 1999).
• Structure: Adult female with most of dorsum covered with wax plates. Only a narrow band of the dorsum bare in midline, whitest, the segmentation not visible. Mounted specimen 1.74 mm long and 1.39 mm wide. Antenna 3-segmented (Kozár & Konczné Benedicty, 1999).
• Biology: This species was collected 2800 m above sea level (Kozár & Konczné Benedicty, 1999) in forest litter (Kozár, 2004).
• General Remarks: Detailed description and illustration by Kozár & Konczné Benedicty (1999). Change of combination, redescription and illustration by Kozár (2004).

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