Valid Names Results

Paracoccus wui Zhang, 2024 (Pseudococcidae: Paracoccus)

Nomenclatural History

• Paracoccus wui Zhang 2024: 6. Type data: CHINA: Jiangxi, Lushan National Nature Reserve (29°33′N, 115°57′E) / under bark crack of Dalbergia hupeana Hance, 9/14/2021, by Jiang-tao Zhang. Holotype, female, by original designation Type depository: Jiangxi: College of Forestry, Jiangxi Agricultural University, Jiangxi, China.; accepted valid name Notes: Paratypes: 8 ♀♀ (mounted singly on 8 slides), same data as holotype (6 in the College of Forestry, Jiangxi Agricultural University, Nanchang, China, 2 in the Insect Collection of the Southwest Forestry University, Yunnan, China). Illustr.

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Ecological Associates

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Families: 1 | Genera: 1

Geographic Distribution

Keys

• ZhangLiLi2024: pp.9 ( Adult (F) ) [Paracoccus from China]

Remarks

• Systematics: Paracoccus wui is similar to P. keralae Williams, 2004 in having only a few dorsal oral rim tubular ducts; it differs from the latter (character states of P. keralae given in parentheses) by having: (i) ventral oral collar tubular ducts absent from margins of the head (present); (ii) multilocular discpores usually in double rows at posterior edges of abdominal segments V and VI (in single rows); and (iii) larger discoidal pores usually each wider than a trilocular pore (narrower than a trilocular pore). Paracoccus wui also resembles P. neocarens (Lit, 1992) (based on the redescription and illustration by Williams (2004)) in possessing some large discoidal pores and a reduced number of dorsal oral rim tubular ducts; it differs from the latter (character states of P. neocarens in parentheses) in having: (i) ventral oral collar tubular ducts absent from margins of the head (present between antennal bases); and (ii) multilocular disc-pores usually in double rows at posterior edges of abdominal segments V and VI (in single rows). (Zhang, et al., 2024)
• Structure: Live adult female body of mature adult female elongate- oval, covered with white, mealy wax; posterior of body with a short, white ovisac formed of tangled wax filaments. Slide-mounted adult female body elongate-oval to broadly oval, 2.8–3.4 mm long and 1.9–2.5 mm wide. Anal lobes moderately developed, dorsal surface of each lobe with a small, slightly sclerotized area; ventral surface with long apical seta, each seta 225–240 μm long, and anal lobe bar present forwards from apical seta. Antennae each 355–458 μm long with 8 segments. (Zhang, et al., 2024
• General Remarks: Detailed description, photograph and illustration in Zhang, et al., 2024.

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