Valid Names Results

Pulvinaria araliae Shinji, 1935 (Coccidae: Pulvinaria)

Nomenclatural History

• Pulvinaria araliae Shinji 1935b: 771. Type data: JAPAN: Morioka, on Aralia chinensis and Acanthopanax spinosum.. Syntypes, female, by subsequent designation Type depository: Matsuyama: Ehime University Museum, Matsuyama, Japan; accepted valid name Notes: 1935 type material lost (Ben-Dov, 1993). Neotype (designated in Tanaka, 2020) JAPAN: Iwate Prefecture, Morioka, Kouma, on Eleutherococcus spinosus, 13.v.2003, coll. H. Tanaka, 1 adult female (EUMJ).

Common Names

Ecological Associates

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Families: 1 | Genera: 2

Geographic Distribution

Keys

• TanakaKa2022a: pp.447-448 ( Adult (F) ) [Pulvinaria species in Japan]

Remarks

• Systematics: The author of this species, Dr. Orihei Shinji (1885–1951) is known as a problematic taxonomist in Japan and it is thought that at least some of his descriptions are unreliable. Furthermore, the original description of P. araliae was based on highly variable morphological characters (e.g. live appearance, proportions of the lengths of antennal segments, body length, and ovisac length) that have little taxonomic value. It is concluded that all of Dr. Shinji’s type specimens of Pulvinaria spp. have been lost. Therefore, the specimen of P. araliae described by Tanaka (2020) was identified based only on the identity of the host plant (Eleutherococcus spinosus) and the type locality (Iwate Prefecture, Japan). Pulvinaria araliae resembles P. nipponica Lindinger, 1933, P. kuwacola Kuwana, 1907, and P. photiniae Kuwana, 1914, in the distribution of type III ventral tubular ducts, the number of loculi in the multilocular pores, and in lacking dorsal tubercles. However, it can be easily distinguished from the above species in having well-developed ventral setae on all the thoracic and abdominal segments, and in lacking dermal areolations on the dorsum. Important diagnostic morphological character states of this species and a comparison between them and those of the type species of the genus, P. vitis (Linnaeus, 1758), are summarized in Tanaka, 2020..
• Structure: Living adult female elongate oval, fairly flat. Dorsum greenish yellow to green, with no visible wax before oviposition period. Slide-mounted adult female body elongate oval, about 2.7 mm long and 2.0 mm wide, margin with shallow indentation at each stigmatic cleft; anal cleft about 1/5–1/6 body length. (tanaka, 2020)
• General Remarks: Detailed redescription and illustration in Tanaka , 2020.

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