Saccharicoccus isfarensis ( Borchsenius, 1949 )

Zhang, Jiang-Tao, Wu, Bo-Wen & Wu, San-An, 2018, A review of the genus Saccharicoccus Ferris, 1950 (Hemiptera: Coccomorpha: Pseudococcidae) in China, with description of a new species, Zootaxa 4375 (1), pp. 127-135 : 132-133

Saccharicoccus isfarensis ( Borchsenius, 1949)

Pseudococcus isfarensis Borchsenius 1949: 152 .

Saccharicoccus penium Williams 1962: 50 ; Tang 1992: 216; Wang 2001: 93. Trionymus penium (Borchsenius) : Danzig 1978: 12.

Trionymus isfarensis (Borchsenius) : Tang 1992: 167 –168.

Saccharicoccus isfarensis (Borchsenius) : Danzig & Gavrilov-Zimin 2015: 92.

Material examined, all from CHINA. One adult female (on 1 slide, the specimen on the slide from DNA-extracted voucher, Genbank no. MG214904 ), Zhejiang, Jiangshan City, Zhangcun Township, Shuangxikou Village [N 28° 23’, E 118° 41’], on Poaceae , 11.viii.2016, coll. Jiang-Tao Zhang & Qin-Gang Dong; 1 adult female (on 1 slide), Zhejiang, Zhoushan City, Dongshan Park [N 30° 00’, E 122° 07’], on Poaceae , 6.viii.2016, coll. Jiang-Tao Zhang & Qin-Gang Dong; 2 adult females (on 1 slide), Zhejiang, Zhoushan City, Taohua Island [N 29° 50’, E 122° 16’], on Poaceae , 4.viii.2016, coll. Jiang-Tao Zhang & Qin-Gang Dong; 1 adult female (on 1 slide), Zhejiang, Zhoushan City, Taohua Island [N 29° 50’, E 122° 16’], on Poaceae , 4.viii.2016, coll. Jiang-Tao Zhang & Qin-Gang Dong; 2 adult females (on 1 slide), Zhejiang, Ningbo City, Simingshan National Forest Park [N 29° 43’, E 121° 04’], on Poaceae , 2.viii.2016, coll. Jiang-Tao Zhang & Qin-Gang Dong; 2 adult females (on 1 slide), Zhejiang, Ningbo City, Simingshan National Forest Park [N 29° 43’, E 121° 04’], on Poaceae , 2.viii.2016, coll. Jiang-Tao Zhang & Qin- Gang Dong; 1 adult female (on 1 slide), Zhejiang, Ningbo City, Simingshan National Forest Park [N 29° 43’, E 121° 04’], on Poaceae , 1.viii.2016, coll. Jiang-Tao Zhang & Qin-Gang Dong; 4 adult females (on 1 slide), Zhejiang, Hangzhou City, Linan District [N 30° 14’, E 119° 43’], on Imperata sp.? ( Poaceae ), 6.viii.2008, coll. Jin Liu; 3 adult females (on 1 slide), Jilin, Jilin City, Songhua lake Park [N 43° 38’, E 126° 46’], on Cyperus sp. ( Poaceae ), 13.viii.2013, coll. San-An Wu & Xu-Bo Wang; 1 adult female (on 1 slide), Shaanxi, Baoji City, Fengxian County [N 33° 54’, E 106° 31’], on Poaceae , 4.ix.1999, San-An Wu; 3 adult female (on 2 slides), Henan, Nanyang City, Neixiang County, Xia Guan Town [N 33° 21’, E 111° 46’], on Calamagrostis sp. ( Poaceae ), 14.vii.1998, coll. San-An Wu.

Host-plants. Saccharicoccus isfarensis is only known on Poaceae . In China, it has been recorded on Agropyron sp., Agrostis sp., Beckmannia sp., B. syzigachne , Calamagrostis sp., Cyperus sp., Festuca sp., Imperata sp., Leymus chinensis , Poa sp. and Stipa sp. ( Tang 1992; Wu 1997, 1999, 2009a, 2009b; Wang 2001; Tang et al. 2012).

Distribution. Oriental and Palaearctic. In China: Henan, Jilin, Inner Mongolia, Ningxia, Shaanxi, Shanxi and Zhejiang provinces ( Tang 1992; Wu 1997, 1999, 2009a, 2009b; Wang 2001; Tang et al. 2012). Biology. Saccharicoccus isfarensis lives under the leaf sheaths of its host-plants.