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Rhizococcus avicennae Moghaddam, 2018 (Eriococcidae: Rhizococcus)

Rhizococcus avicennae Moghaddam 2018b: 520. Type data: IRAN: Hamadan Province, Malayer County, Lashkardar Protected Area, Golparabad village, 36°26′19.5″ N, 50°16′06.1″ E, 1386 m., on Poaceae, 7/6/2017, by M. Moghaddam. Holotype, female, by original designation Type depository: Tehran: Hayk Mirzayans Insects Museum, Tehran, Iran; accepted valid name Notes: PARATYPES: 4 adult females, same data as holotype except for right label: ‘Paratype / Rhizococcus avicennae sp. n.’ (slide-mounted on 4 slides of which 3 in Hayk Mirzayans Insect Museum, Tehran, Iran and 1 in the Natural History Museum and Genetic Resources Bureau, Tehran, Iran

Families: 1 | Genera: 1

Countries: 1

Systematics: Zoobank: http://zoobank.org/urn:lsid:zoobank.org:pub:11071EC7-8A29-4C54-A48C-C9FA6A7CA522 Rhizococcus avicennae resembles Rhizococcus desertus (Matesova, 1957) originally described from Kazakhstan in the following characters: (i) enlarged setae present on dorsum of abdominal segment VIII; (ii) dorsal enlarged setae usually sharply pointed; (iii) dorsal enlarged setae on abdominal segment VIII numbering 6–8; and (iv) three enlarged setae present on anal lobes with two microtubular ducts on dorsal surface. Rhizococcus avicennaeand differs in having cruciform pores on the venter of the head, thorax, and abdominal segments I and II; in lacking frontal lobes and the frontal tubercle on the head; in the presence of fl agellate setae on the ventral submargin and macroducts in three sizes on the venter and dorsum. (Moghaddam, 2018b)
Structure: Living Adult female: Body pyriform, dark green; ovisac white, rounded, completely covering body (Moghaddam, 2018b)
Biology: The females were found at the bases of leaves of an unidentified species of grass (Poaceae). (Moghaddam, 2018b)
General Remarks: Detailed description and illustration in Moghaddam, 2018b

Moghad2018b: description, diagnosis, distribution, illustration, key, morphology, taxonomy,
Moghad2019: key, 457