Paracoccus leucadendri Mazzeo & Franco in Mazzeo, Franco & Russo, 2009, a junior synonym of Paracoccus hakeae (Williams, 1985) comb. nov. (Coccomorpha: Pseudococcidae)
Author
Ellenrieder, Natalia Von
Author
Watson, Gillian W.
Author
Kinnee, Scott A.
Author
Franco, José C.
Author
Mazzeo, Gaetana
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Zootaxa
2016
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journal article
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10.11646/zootaxa.4093.4.6
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Genetic distances and generic placement of
Ph
. hakeae
Molecular analysis showed the COI sequences of 610 base pairs of the Australian and Californian specimens to be identical. The sequenced COI portion of
Phenacoccus hakeae
differs by 11–15 % from similar sequences of other
Phenacoccus
species (
Ph
. aceris
(Signoret)
,
Ph
. avenae
Borchsenius
,
Ph
. baccharidis
Williams
,
Ph
. madeirensis
Green
,
Ph
. parvus
Morrison
,
Ph
. peruvianus
Granara
de Willink in: Granara de Willink & Szumik,
Ph
. solani
Ferris
,
Ph
. solenopsis
Tinsley
) and by 9–14 % from those of
Paracoccus
species (
Pa. burnerae
(Brain)
,
Pa. ferrisi
Ezzat & McConnell
or nr.,
Pa. gillianae
von Ellenrieder & Stocks,
Pa. marginatus
Williams & Granara
de Willink) available on GenBank and in the CSCA dataset.
The TaxonID tree-based identification tool in BOLD (Ratnasigham & Hebert 2013) shows
Ph
. hakeae
grouping with
Crisicoccus matsumotoi
(Siraiwa)
(8.5–10 % difference) known from South-East Asia and the Oriental region, and
Vryburgia transvaalensis
(Brain)
(9.9–10 % difference) from southern Africa.
Our Neighbor-Joining analysis performed using available sequences in the CSCA database and some selected sequences from GenBank shows
Ph
. hakeae
grouping with members of the subfamily Pseudococcinae with good support, and in a subgroup including
Balanococcus takahashii
McKenzie
and
Crisicoccus matsumotoi
with low support. It also shows the genus
Phenacoccus
forming a separate grouping (
Fig. 1
), as is expected because
Phenacoccus
belongs to the subfamily Phenacoccinae (Hardy
et al.
2008).