Physokermes piceae (Schrank)

Stalažs, Arturs, 2021, Biruta Rasiņa’s collection of scale insects (Hemiptera: Sternorrhyncha Coccomorpha) at the Latvian National Museum of Natural History, including type material of several species, Zootaxa 5039 (4), pp. 451-478 : 460-461

Physokermes piceae (Schrank)

Names used in the samples: Physokermes abietis , Physokermes latipes , Physokermes piceae

BELARUS: dry material. Picea abies: Belovezh —5267 (12.vii.1908, leg. A. Mordvilko, det. not known) ;

Remarks. The Belovezh Forest also stretches on in the territory of Poland, but in the light of the following facts, the sample is from the territory of Belarus. The names of the collector and identifier are not indicated for the sample, only the name of the locality Belovezh in Russian аs ‘ БЕЛОВЕж ’, and the date as ‘12.07.08’. In his work, when describing the taxon Physokermes latipes, Borchsenius (1957) refers to the material marked with the same date and the same place name, and A. Mordvilko is indicated as the sample collector. There is no doubt that the dry sample in Biruta Rasiņa’s scale insect collection is from the same series of A. Mordvilko’s collection, which was given to Biruta Rasiņa by N. Borchsenius during their meeting.

LATVIA: dry material. Picea abies: Baldone surroundings—4870 (16.iii.1959) ; Bārtas pagasts—4869 (13. viii.1948) ; former Bauņu pagasts—5187 (28.vi.1948, leg. J. Zirnītis) , 5188 (2.vii.1948, leg. J. Zirnītis), 4877 (7.v.1949, leg. J. Zirnītis); Ilūkste surroundings—5193 (25.vii.1947) , 4861, 4862, 5195 & 5271 (27.vii.1947); Inčukalns surroundings—4867 (26.x.1950) ; Jūrmala ( Asari–Valteri )—4868, 5441 & 5444 (7.viii.1947) ; Kangari (Ropažu novads)—5185 (4.vii.1947) , 5186 & 5190 (6.vii.1947, leg. A. Rasiņš, B. Rasiņa, V. Kalniņa ), 4866 (31. viii.1947) ; Kaņieris Lake surroundings—4879 & 5270 (10.vii.1949, leg. E. Ozols) ; Kazu purvs ( Priekuļu pagasts)— 5191 (10.vi.1948, leg. J. Zirnītis) ; Kurmale surroundings—5194 (3.vii.1952) ; Ogre surroundings—4871 & 4872 (12.vi.1960) ; Rīga —4863 (15.iii.1977) ; Smiltene surroundings—4878 (15.vii.1976) ; Strenči —4873 (27.vii.1947, leg. V. Eglītis); Tume —5192 (23.vii.1952) ; Vandzene surroundings—4874 & 4875 (31.vii.1946) ; Vecāķi —4865 & 4876 (8.iv.1948) ; unknown locality—5189 (29.xi.1947).