Graminorthezia Kozár, 2004

Vea, Isabelle M., 2014, Morphology of the males of seven species of Ortheziidae (Hemiptera: Coccoidea), American Museum Novitates 2014 (3812), pp. 1-36 : 7

Graminorthezia Kozár

Graminorthezia Kozár, 2004: 272 . Type species: Orthezia graminis Tinsley, 1898 .

COMMENTS: Because Graminorthezia currently comprises 11 described species ( Miller et al., 2013) based on female morphology, the description of the adult male of G. graminis acts for now as the generic diagnosis. The genus is classified in the tribe Ortheziini ( Kozár, 2004) , along with Insignorthezia , Orthezia , and Praelongorthezia , and was defined based on adult female morphology and distinguished from these other genera by “bands or rows of wax plates within the ovisac band,” “head of dorsum without sclerotized cephalic plates,” and “no more than 7 abdominal spiracles” ( Kozár, 2004: 271). The genus is distributed mainly in the Nearctic, with some species in the Neotropical regions.