Ortheziola Sulc , 1895

Kaydan, Mehmet Bora, Konczne Benedicty, Zsuzsanna & Szita, Eva, 2014, New species of the genus Ortheziola Sulc (Hemiptera, Coccoidea, Ortheziidae), ZooKeys 406, pp. 65-80 : 67-68

Ortheziola Sulc, 1895

Type species.

Ortheziola vejdovskyi Šulc, 1895, 1.

Diagnosis of genus.

Adult female in life with a series of marginal, mediolateral and medial waxy protrusions, corresponding to wax plates on slide-mounted specimens. The distribution of these protrusions (and wax plates) differs between the species ( Kozár 2004).

Slide-mounted adult female with antenna 3-segmented; third antennal segment with slender apical seta, flagellate sensory seta and small subapical seta; second segment with 1 sensory pore. Eye stalk protruding, thumb-like, fused with sclerotized area at base of antenna, which is sometimes called the pseudobasal antennal segment. Legs well developed; leg setae robust, spine-like; trochanter and femur fused, tibia and tarsus fused; tibia with 1 sensory pore and at least 1 fleshy sensory seta; tarsus without digitule; claw digitules hair-like, claw without denticle. Labium 1-segmented, with many setae; with 3 long setae near apex of labium very close together, all situated in a single setal socket. Anal ring situated in a fold of derm on dorsal surface, ring bearing 6 setae. Sclerotized plate present on dorsum anterior to anal ring, wider than long. Modified pores, each with 2, 3 or 4 loculi, scattered over surface, appearing like microtubular ducts. Thumb-like pores forming cluster on each side of anal ring. Abdominal spiracles ventral on anterior segments, with at least one present on each side of segments I, II or III; when present, posterior abdominal spiracles located on dorsum near anal ring, surrounded by a cluster of multilocular pores ( Kozár 2004).

Distribution.

The 12 species of Ortheziola are distributed in the Palaearctic and North East part of the Oriental Regions (Figure 4). For detailed distribution data of the nine previously known species, see ScaleNet ( Ben-Dov et al. 2013). New locality records for several Ortheziola species were discovered during the study of the MHNG collection, which are listed below. The distribution patterns of the species may imply the existence of several other species in these regions, which would be worth further study.

Comments.

The genus Ortheziola resembles the genera Ortheziolacoccus and Ortheziolamameti in having 3-segmented antennae, and the basal part of the antenna fused to the eye. However, Ortheziola differs from Ortheziolacoccus and Ortheziolamameti in having only a single spine band inside the ovisac band, and by its geographic distribution. The nine previously recorded species of Ortheziola occur in the Palaearctic and the North-East part of the Oriental Region.

Key to species of Ortheziola , based on adult females