Dysmicoccus brevipes (Cockerell)

MOGHADDAM, MASUMEH & WATSON, GILLIAN W., 2022, The Scale Insects Of Iran (Hemiptera: Coccomorpha) Part 2 The Mealybugs (Pseudococcidae And Rhizoecidae) And Putoidae, Zootaxa 5126 (1), pp. 1-169 : 45-48

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https://doi.org/ 10.11646/zootaxa.5126.1.1

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https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.6460442

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scientific name

Dysmicoccus brevipes (Cockerell)
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Dysmicoccus brevipes (Cockerell) View in CoL

( Fig. 14 View FIGURE 14 , distribution map Fig. 67 A View FIGURE 67 )

Dactylopius brevipes Cockerell. 1893a: 267 . Dactylopius (Pseudococcus) ananassae Kuwana, 1909: 162 . Pseudococcus missionum Cockerell, 1910: 113 View in CoL . Pseudococcus palauensis Kanda, 1933: 135 View in CoL . Pseudococcus cannae Green, 1934: 162 View in CoL . Pseudococcus longirostralis James, 1936: 207 View in CoL . Pseudococcus defluiteri Betrem, 1937: 43 View in CoL . Pseudococcus pseudobrevipes Mamet, 1941: 58 View in CoL .

Field characteristics: Usually found near the plant base or on exposed roots of grasses and herbaceous plants; can also occur underground on roots, e.g. on palms. Body of live adult female pink, coated with white mealy wax and with 17 pairs of slender wax projections around margins, these often rather untidy and all of similar, moderate lengths.

Microscopic diagnosis: Slide-mounted adult female oval to broadly oval. Antennae each with 8 segments. Legs well developed; hind leg with translucent pores abundant on dorsal surfaces of femur and tibia. Tarsal digitules pointed at tip and longer than claw. Cerarii numbering 17 pairs. Anal lobe cerarii each containing 2 conical setae, 6 or 7 auxiliary setae, and a compact group of trilocular pores, all situated on a more-or-less circular sclerotized area smaller than area of anal ring. Anterior cerarii each containing 2–4 conical setae, 3–5 auxiliary setae, and a compact group of trilocular pores. Circulus divided by an intersegmental line. Ostioles well developed.

Dorsum with slender stiff setae; setae on dorsomedial area of segment VIII (anterior to anal ring) obviously longer than those on segments VII and VI, and intermingled with large reticulated discoidal pores. Multilocular disc pores absent. Trilocular pores fairly numerous. Discoidal pores, each with a reticulated surface, of 2 sizes; large type, each larger than a trilocular pore, occurring medially on abdominal segments V – VIII; and smaller type, same size or smaller than a trilocular pore, fairly numerous, scattered. Oral collar tubular ducts absent .

Venter with normal setae, mostly shorter and slenderer than dorsal setae. Multilocular disc pores each with 12 loculi, present posterior to vulva and medially at posterior edges of abdominal segments VI and VII. Trilocular pores numerous. Discoidal pores of 1 size, each same diameter as a trilocular pore with a reticulated surface, fairly numerous, scattered. Each eye always with 1–4 adjacent small discoidal pores. Oral collar tubular ducts usually of 2 sizes: larger type present singly on margins of abdominal segments V VII ; and slightly smaller type distributed across abdominal segments V and VI , also 1 or 2 present submarginally and laterally on segments VI and VII.

Distribution: Dysmicoccus brevipes has been recorded from 125 countries representing all zoogeographic Regions ( García Morales et al. 2016); in Iran, it is known from Sistan & Balouchestan province ( Moghaddam 1999).

Host-plants: The species has been recorded on host-plants in 148 genera belonging to 63 families ( García Morales et al. 2016); in Iran, it has been found on the roots of Medicago sativa (Fabaceae) ( Moghaddam 1999).

Economic importance: None in Iran.

Natural enemies: Not recorded in Iran.

Comments: The accompanying illustration is reproduced from Moghaddam (2013a), page 23, Fig. 10 View FIGURE 10 , with kind permission from the Chief Editor of Zootaxa.

VI

Mykotektet, National Veterinary Institute

V

Royal British Columbia Museum - Herbarium

Kingdom

Animalia

Phylum

Arthropoda

Class

Insecta

Order

Hemiptera

Family

Pseudococcidae

Genus

Dysmicoccus

Loc

Dysmicoccus brevipes (Cockerell)

MOGHADDAM, MASUMEH & WATSON, GILLIAN W. 2022
2022
Loc

Dactylopius brevipes

Mamet, J. R. 1941: 58
Betrem, J. G. 1937: 43
James, H. C. 1936: 207
Green, E. E. 1934: 162
Kanda, S. 1933: 135
Cockerell, T. D. A. 1910: 113
Kuwana, S. I. 1909: 162
1909
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