Scale insects of the Volga Area (Homoptera: Coccinea). IV. Mirococcus vallis sp. nov. and some other mealybugs (Pseudococcidae) from Samara Province of Russia
I.A. Gavrilov-Zimin & A.S. Kurochkin
Abstract. Mirococcus vallis sp. nov. is described and illustrated from Samara Prov. of Russia. Three else species of mealybugs: Fonscolombia amnicola (Borchsenius, 1948), Mirococcopsis subterranea (Newstead, 1893) and Ripersiella poltavae (Laing, 1929) are reported for the first time to the fauna of the Volga Area.
Key words: scale insects, mealybugs, fauna of Russia, Volga region, Homoptera, Coccinea, Pseudococcidae, new records, new species
Zoosystematica Rossica, 2016, 25(1): 151–156 ▪ Published in print 25 June 2016
https://doi.org/10.31610/zsr/2016.25.1.151 ▪ Open full article
Electronic supplementary material
- Mirococcopsis subterranean in soil on roots of Festuca valesiaca: video file 1; video file 2.
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