Planococcus juniperus Tang in Tang & Li, 1988

Zhang, Jiangtao & Deng, Jun, 2023, A study of the mealybug genus Planococcus Ferris, 1950 from China, with description of a new species (Hemiptera, Coccomorpha, Pseudococcidae), ZooKeys 1178, pp. 77-95 : 77

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scientific name	Planococcus juniperus Tang in Tang & Li, 1988
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Planococcus juniperus Tang in Tang & Li, 1988: 42.

Crisicoccus juniperus : Tang 1992: 352.

Host plant.

Cupressaceae : Juniperus rigida ( Tang and Li 1988).

Distribution.

Inner Mongolia ( Tang and Li 1988).

Remarks.

Planococcus juniperus was transferred to Crisicoccus as C. juniperus by Tang (1992), but it was subsequently treated as a junior synonym of P. vovae (Nasonov) by Danzig and Gavrilov-Zimin (2010). Recently, this mealybug was revived as a valid species by Wu et al. (2023) based on morphological and molecular studies. A good description and illustration of the adult female was given by Tang and Li (1988).