Valid Names Results

Puto sinensis Zheng & Wu, 2025 (Putoidae: Puto)

Nomenclatural History

• Puto sinensis Zheng & Wu 2025: 127. Type data: CHINA: Guizhou Prov., Guiyang City, Kaiyang County, Nanjiang Grand Canyon, on Lindera communis (Lauraceae), 1 May 2023, leg. Zhixiang Tan. Holotype, female, by original designation Type depository: Beijing: Forestry University, Beijing, China; accepted valid name Notes: Paratypes: CHINA: Guangdong Prov., Shaoguan City, Yao Autonomous County of Ruyuan, Nanling National Forest Park, on Photinia serratifolia (Rosaceae), leg. San-an Wu, 20 April 2021: 2 ♀♀ mounted together on 1 slide (BFUC) Illustr.

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Ecological Associates

Hosts:

Families: 2 | Genera: 2

Geographic Distribution

Keys

• ZhengLiTa2025: pp.134 ( Adult (F) ) [Puto from the Old World (updated from Danzig & Gavrilov 2014)]
• ZhengLiTa2025: pp.135 ( Adult (M) ) [Known adult males of Puto (revised from Powell & Miller 2024)]

Remarks

• Systematics: The adult female of P. sinensis is closest to that of P. thailandicus Williams, 2004 in having the following character states: (i) a single circulus situated on venter of abdominal segment III; (ii) anal ring bearing sharply-tipped setae; (iii) oral collar tubular ducts absent from cerarii; (iv) dorsum without additional dorsal cerarii; (v) wide oral collar tubular ducts present on dorsum of head and thorax, and (vi) wide tubular ducts present ventrally on margins. Puto sinensis differs from P. thailandicus by having: (i) multilocular disc-pores of 2 sizes, each pore with 5, 7 or 9 subcentral loculi only; and (ii) a few slender oral collar ducts present anterior to clypeolabral shield. (Zheng et al. 2025)
• Structure: In life: Body oval, dorsum covered with plates of dense white flocculent wax, venter thinly coated with mealy white wax. Diagnostic characteristics: (i) circulus on abdominal segment III complete, more than three times as wide as long, without a constriction; (ii) anal lobe cerarius containing 25–30 lanceolate setae; (iii) abundant small multilocular disc-pores present from head to abdominal segment VI; (iv) numerous large multilocular disc-pores present on abdominal segments VI–VIII; (v) ostioles with setae on lips; (vi) anal ring bearing six acute setae; (vii) dorsum with a few large oral collar tubular ducts posterior to sclerotized areas of most cerarii (not within or immediately adjacent to sclerotized areas), also with a few present submedially on head and submargins of thorax; (viii) a few large oral collar tubular ducts ventrally on margins of posterior abdomen; (ix) venter with small oral collar tubular ducts forming groups on margins, and short submedial transverse bands on abdominal segments IV–VII; (x) claw digitules clubbed, extending beyond apex of claw; (xi) cerarii numbering 17 basic pairs, supplementary cerarii usually present also, between thorax and abdominal segment IV; (xii) a few slender oral collar tubular ducts present anterior to clypeolabral shield; and (xiii) venter without lanceolate setae. (Zheng et al., 2025)
• General Remarks: Description and illustration of adult female and male by Zheng et al (2025).

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