Spilococcus alhagii (lat.) Is a species of half-winged insects - coccid of the genus Spilococcus from the family of mealybugs ( Pseudococcidae ) [1] .
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Distribution
Africa: Egypt . Asia: Afghanistan , Iran , Saudi Arabia [1] [2] .
Description
They feed on the root juices of plants such as Alhagi maurorum ( Fabaceae ), Artemisia judaica , Echinops spinosus ( Asteraceae ), Suaeda fruticosa ( Amaranthaceae ), Cissus rotundifolia ( Vitaceae ), Nitraria retusa , Zygumophyumum . The species was first described in 1926 by entomologist W.J. Hall ( Hall, WJ ) as Pseudococcus alhagii together with Trionymus angustifrons [1] [3] [4] . The taxon Pseudococcus alhagii is included in the genus Pseudococcus Borchsenius, 1948 together with the species Spilococcus andersoni , Spilococcus artemisiphilus , Spilococcus atriplicis . The species name comes from the generic name of the host plant ( Alhagi ), on which the development of mealybugs occurs [1] .
See also
- Monophleboides gymnocarpi
- Targionia haloxyloni
Notes
- ↑ 1 2 3 4 Ben-Dov, Y. Spilococcus alhagii . Scale insect web catalog . scalenet.info (26th of June, 2014). - Taxonomy. Date of treatment June 27, 2014. (unavailable link)
- ↑ Ben-Dov, Y. A systematic catalog of the mealybugs of the world (Insecta: Homoptera: Coccoidea: Pseudococcidae and Putoidae) with data on geographical distribution, host plants, biology and economic importance. - Andover, UK: Intercept Limited, 1994 .-- P. 1-686.
- ↑ Hall, WJ Contribution to the knowledge of the Coccidae of Egypt (English) // Bulletin, Ministry of Agriculture, Egypt, Technical and Scientific Service: Journal. - 1926. - Vol. 72. - P. 1-41.
- ↑ Ezzat, YM Nada, SMA List of Superfamily Coccoidea as known to exist in Egypt // Bollettino del Laboratorio di Entomologia Agraria 'Filippo Silvestri' (Proceedings of the Fifth International Symposium of Scale Insect Studies): Journal. - 1987. - Vol. 43 (Suppl.). - P. 85-90.
Literature
- Borchsenius N.S. Worms and Scutellaria (Coccoidea). - Moscow - Leningrad: Publishing House of the Academy of Sciences of the USSR, 1950. - 1-250 p. - (Keys to the fauna of the USSR, published by the Zoological Institute of the USSR Academy of Sciences . No. 32). - 2000 copies.
- Ben-Dov, Yair. A systematic catalog of the soft scale insects of the world (Homoptera: Coccoidea: Coccidae). - Gainesville, FL: Sandhill Crane Press, 1993 .-- P. 1-536.
- Abd-Rabou, S. 2001. Parasitoids attack mealybugs (Homoptera: Coccoidea: Pseudococcidae) in Egypt. Egyptian Journal of Agricultural Research 79 (4): 1355-1376.
Links
- Ben-Dov, Y. Spilococcus alhagii . Scale insect web catalog . scalenet.info (26th of June, 2014). - Taxonomy. Date of treatment June 27, 2014. (unavailable link)
- Spilococcus alhagii . eol.org. - Taxonomy. Date of treatment June 27, 2014.