Matsucoccus Cockerell

Watson, Gillian W., 2022, Towards identification of the scale insects (Hemiptera: Coccomorpha) of continental Africa: 2. Checklists and keys to six archaeococcoid families, Zootaxa 5105 (3), pp. 301-356 : 316

Genus Matsucoccus Cockerell

This is a genus of 39 conifer-feeding species worldwide, most of which occur in the northern hemisphere on Pinus ; two species have been recorded from North Africa ( García Morales et al. 2016).

Key to species of Matsucoccus in continental Africa, from Foldi (2005b)

1(0) Antennal scape (segment I) longer than wide. Antennal segments V‒IX each with 2 fleshy setae. On Pinus halepensis and P. pinaster ................................................................................. feytaudi ( Fig. 8 )

- Antennal scape wider than long. Antennal segments VI‒IX each with 2 fleshy setae (fleshy setae absent from segment V). On P. nigra and P. sylvestris ............................................................................. pini

Figures

FIGURE 8. Matsucoccus feytaudi Ducasse, adult female, from Foldi (2005b: 150, Fig. 1), reproduced with permission from Annales de la Société entomologique de France.