Spilococcus Ferris

Moghaddam, Masumeh, 2013, A review of the mealybugs (Hemiptera: Coccoidea: Pseudococcidae, Putoidae and Rhizoecidae) of Iran, with descriptions of four new species and three new records for the Iranian fauna, Zootaxa 3632 (1), pp. 1-107 : 81

Key to species of Spilococcus Ferris

1. Circulus absent................................................................... mirzayansi (Moghaddam)

- Circulus present....................................................................................... 2

2 Multilocular disc pores present ventrally only on posterior abdominal segments........................... alhagii (Hall)

- Multilocular disc pores present ventrally on head, thorax and abdominal segments................. .. flavus (Borchsenius)