Ortheziolamameti Kozar , 2004: 483.

Szita, Eva, Kaydan, Mehmet Bora & Benedicty, Zsuzsanna Konczne, 2014, Description of Ortheziolamameti tranfagliai new species (Hemiptera, Coccoidea, Ortheziidae) from India, ZooKeys 420, pp. 51-59 : 53

Taxon classification Animalia Hemiptera Ortheziidae

Genus Ortheziolamameti Kozar, 2004: 483.

Type species.

Ortheziolamameti guineensis Kozár, 2004, 484.

Diagnosis of genus.

Dorsum of intact adult female covered with irregular and triangular shell-like wax plates; ventral thoracic wax plates around the appendages and on margin, thorax medially lacking wax plates; wax cover corresponding to wax plates on slide-mounted specimens on both sides ( Kozár 2004) (Fig. 1).

Slide-mounted adult female with 3-segmented antenna; 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 base of antenna. 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 tarsal digitules; claw digitules hair-like, claw without a denticle. Labium 1 segmented, with many setae; with 3 long setae near apex of labium, setae 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. Thumb-like pores forming a cluster on each side of anal ring. Abdominal spiracles in centre of multilocular disc pore cluster present laterad to anal ring ( Kozár 2004).

Distribution. The six Ortheziolamameti species are distributed in the Ethiopian, Oriental and Palaearctic regions (Fig. 3). For detailed distribution data of previously known five species, see ScaleNet ( Ben-Dov et al. 2013). New locality records for several Ortheziolamameti species were discovered during the study of the MHNG collection, which are listed below.

Key to species of Ortheziolamameti