Valid Names Results

Pulvinaria aurantii Cockerell, 1896 (Coccidae: Pulvinaria)

Nomenclatural History

• Pulvinaria aurantii Cockerell 1896h: 19. Type data: JAPAN: Tokyo, on orange.. Syntypes, female, Type depository: Washington: United States National Entomological Collection, U.S. National Museum of Natural History, District of Columbia, USA; accepted valid name Notes: Also described as n. sp. in Cockerell 1896i, p. 48.
• Lecanium notatum Maskell 1897a: 243. Type data: JAPAN: Atami, on Thea sp., Ilex crenata and Pittosporum sp.. Syntypes, female, Type depository: Washington: United States National Entomological Collection, U.S. National Museum of Natural History, District of Columbia, USA; junior synonym (discovered by Takaha1955b, 70).
• Coccus notatus (Maskell, 1897); Fernald 1903b: 173. change of combination
• Pulvinaria ornata Froggatt 1921: 427. Type data: AUSTRALIA: New South Wales, Sydney, on lemon tree.. Lectotype, female, by subsequent designation (QinGu1992,114). Type depository: St. Petersburg: Zoological Museum, Academy of Science, Russia; synonym and homonym (discovered by TanakaKa2021b, 52).
• Chloropulvinaria aurantii (Cockerell, 1896); Borchsenius 1952: 300. change of combination
• Pulvinaria notatum (Maskell, 1897); Takahashi 1955b: 70. change of combination
• Pulvinaria decorata Borchsenius 1957: 228. replacement name Notes: for Pulvinaria ornata Froggatt, 1921 (nec Hempel, 1912). (see above: junior synonym reported in TanakaKa2021b, 52)
• Pulvinaria aurantii Cockerell, 1896; Ben-Dov 1993: 251. revived combination (previously published)
• ulvinaria aurantii; Moghaddam 2009: 34. misspelling of genus name Notes: Mispelling of 'ulvinaria' for 'Pulvinaria'.

Common Names

Ecological Associates

Hosts:

Families: 15 | Genera: 17

Foes:

Families: 2 | Genera: 2

Associates:

Families: 1 | Genera: 1

Geographic Distribution

Keys

• TanakaKa2022a: pp.447-448 ( Adult (F) ) [Pulvinaria species in Japan]
• CaoFe2020: pp.233-234 ( Adult (F) ) [Pulvinaria in China] Key as: Pulvinaria decorata
• CaoFe2020: pp.233-234 ( Adult (F) ) [Pulvinaria in China]
• Tang1991: pp.226 ( Adult (F) ) [China]
• Kawai1980: pp.148-150 ( Adult (F) ) [Japan]
• Beards1966: pp.491 ( Adult (F) ) [Micronesia]
• Borchs1957: pp.205 ( Adult (F) ) [Palaearctic region]

Remarks

• Systematics: GeneBank Accession No. 439535 (Yokogawa & Yahara, 2009). Subfamily: Coccinae A, Pulvinarini (Choi & Lee, 2019)
• Structure: Body oval; yellow-brown; dorsum of mature adult female slightly convex. Adult females on leaves and stems each secrete an elongate white, cottony ovisac that completely covers the body by the time oviposition is finished. Slide-mounted adult female. Body oval to broadly oval, 3.5–4.5 mm long, 2.0–3.0 mm wide. Anal cleft approximately 1/6–1/5 of body length. Stigmatic clefts shallow but distinct. (Cao & Feng, 2020) See colour photograph in Kawai (1980, Fig. 26,a,b,c)
• General Remarks: Good description of adult female and male by Borchsenius (1957). Detailed description and illustration in Qin & Gullan, 1992. Redescription in Tanaka & Kamitani, 2021b.

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