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Pseudocribrolecanium Kondo, 2006 (Coccidae)

Pseudocribrolecanium Kondo 2006: 2. Type species: Akermes andersoni Newstead by monotypy and original designation . accepted valid name

Systematics: Subfamily: Coccinae. Tribe: Coccini.
Pseudocribrolecanium appears similar to Cribrolecanium Green (Myzolecaniinae), with which it shares dorsal cribriform plates and highly reduced appendages.
Structure: Insects oval, pyriform to asymmetrical in shape, flat, becoming sclerotized at maturity. Cribrolecanium possesses the following features that separate it from Pseudocribrolecanium (character states on Pseudocribrolecanium in brackets): (i) the presence of a membranous bag-like structure which contains the spiracular pores (see Hodgson 1995) (spiracular disc-pores not within a bag-like structure), (ii) the restriction of pregenital disc-pores to immediately around the vulvar region (spreading anteriorly), (iii) the lack of spiracular setae (3–5), (iv) complete absence of preopercular pores (present), (v) presence of small groups of dorsal microducts on area anterior to anal plates (absent), (vi) antennal length less than the width or only slightly longer, never twice its width (length of antennae 3–4 times its width), and (vii) an anal ring with 16–18 setae (8 in Pseudocribrolecanium ). The two genera also differ greatly at the ecological level, with Cribrolecanium being found on the roots and in hollow branches of its host, whereas Pseudocribrolecanium feeds on the leaves. (Kondo, 2006)
General Remarks: Definition, illustration and characters by Kondo (2006).