Prococcus Avasthi 1993

Cao, Tong, Watson, Gillian W., Hodgson, Chris J., Jing, Qi & Feng, Ji-Nian, 2022, The genera Coccus and Prococcus (Hemiptera: Coccomorpha: Coccidae) in China with two new combinations and descriptions of two new species, Zootaxa 5087 (1), pp. 112-128 : 118

Genus Prococcus Avasthi 1993

Type species. Prococcus acutissimus ( Green, 1896) .

Avasthi 1993: 73.

Revised generic diagnosis of adult female (based on P. acutissimus , P. cambodiensis ( Takahashi, 1942) comb. n. and P. cameronensis ( Takahashi, 1952) comb. n.) Body slender, narrowly elongate oval or slightly curved, with anterior and posterior ends more-or-less pointed. Dorsum. Derm slightly or strongly sclerotized, dermal areolations or reticulations sometimes becoming well developed in older females. Dorsal setae slender, spinose and pointed, or cylindrical or robust and slightly tapering with bluntly rounded apices. Dorsal tubular ducts absent. Submarginal tubercles present. Preopercular pores numerous, situated anterior to anal plates. Anal plates triangular, together quadrate, each with a discal or subdiscal seta. Eye-spots situated on submargin. Margin. Marginal setae slender with pointed apices. Each stigmatic cleft shallow, usually containing 3 spinose stigmatic spines, occasionally only 1, median spine with bluntly pointed or rounded apex, slender or curved, lateral spines with rounded apices. Venter. Antennae reduced, each with 2‒5 segments. Inter-antennal setae present or absent; long pregenital setae numbering 3 pairs; submarginal setae present. Legs reduced or even invisible, tibio-tarsal articulation imperfect, fused or articulated; claw digitules unequal (with 1 thick and 1 thin) or possibly absent. Ventral tubular ducts absent.