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 text Zootaxa 2016 4093 4 552 558 journal article 51513 10.11646/zootaxa.4093.4.6 8a9d5d09-e9a7-4372-a7bc-b45038da9d81 1175-5326 258657 D25E4BE8-E115-46F8-BCF3-D13D07036482 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).