Mesolecanium lucidum

Mesolecanium lucidum
Scientific classification
Kingdom:	Animals
Type of:	Arthropods
Class:	Insects
Infraclass:	Winged insects
Squad:	Hemiptera
Suborder:	Sternorrhyncha
Superfamily:	Coccoidea
Family:	Coccidae
Subfamily:	Coccinae
Tribe:	Coccini
Rod:	Mesolecanium
View:	Mesolecanium lucidum
Latin name
	Mesolecanium lucidum ; Hempel, 1912

Mesolecanium lucidum (Latin) —a species of hemiptera insects — coccide of the genus Mesolecanium from the false guard ( Coccidae ) family ^[1] .

Content

Spread

South America , Brazil (Rio Grande do Sul) ^[1] ^[2] .

Description

They feed on juices of rut plants such as orange ( Citrus aurantium ), the genus Citrus ( Rutaceae ), as well as representatives of the Solanaceae family ( Solanaceae ). The species was first described in 1912 by the Brazilian entomologist Adolf Hempel ( Hempel, Adolph ; 1870-1949) ^[1] ^[3] ^[4] . The taxon Mesolecanium lucidum is included in the genus Mesolecanium (the tribe Coccini ) together with the taxa M. argaformis , M. campomanesiae , M. baccharidis , M. inflatum , M. ferum , M. jaboticabae , M. marmoratum , M. obscurum , M. planum , M. pseudosemen , M. rhizophorae , M. uvicola and others ^[1] ^[5] .

Notes

↑ ¹ ² ³ ⁴ Ben-Dov, Y. Mesolecanium lucidum (English) (inaccessible link) . Scale insect web catalog . scalenet.info (26th of June, 2014). - Taxonomy. The date of circulation is July 13, 2014. Archived July 14, 2014.
↑ Hodgson, CJ The scale insect family Coccidae: an identification manual to genera. - Wallingford, Oxon, UK: CAB International, 1994. - P. 1-639.
↑ Hempel, A. 1912. [Catalogs of the Brazilian Fauna published by the Museu Paulista S. Paulo.] Catalogs da fauna Brasileira editados pello Museu Paulista S. Paulo - Brasil. Diario Official, Sao Paulo, 77 pp.
↑ Corseuil, E. Barbosa, VMB 1971. [The Coccidae family in the Rio Grande do Sul (Homoptera, Coccoidea).] A familia Coccidae no Rio Grande do Sul (Homoptera, Coccoidea). Arquivos do Museu Nacional, Rio de Janeiro 54: 237–241.
↑ Ben-Dov, Y. 1993. A systematic catalog of the soft scale insects of the world (Homoptera: Coccoidea: Coccidae). Sandhill Crane Press, Gainesville, FL, 536 pp.

Literature

Borchsenius N. S. Chervets and Shchitovki (Coccoidea). - Moscow - Leningrad: Publishing House of the Academy of Sciences of the USSR, 1950. - 1-250 p. - (Determinants on the fauna of the USSR, published by the Zoological Institute of the Academy of Sciences of the USSR . No. 32). - 2000 copies
Ben-Dov, Yair. A systematic catalog of soft peace (Homoptera: Coccoidea: Coccidae). - Gainesville, FL: Sandhill Crane Press, 1993. - P. 1-536.

Links

Ben-Dov, Y. Mesolecanium lucidum (English) (inaccessible link) . Scale insect web catalog . scalenet.info (26th of June, 2014). - Taxonomy. The date of circulation is July 13, 2014. Archived July 14, 2014.
Mesolecanium (English) . eol.org. - Taxonomy. The appeal date is July 13, 2014.

[scalenet-1] ¹ ² ³ ⁴ Ben-Dov, Y. Mesolecanium lucidum (English) (inaccessible link) . Scale insect web catalog . scalenet.info (26th of June, 2014). - Taxonomy. The date of circulation is July 13, 2014. Archived July 14, 2014.

[Hodgson1994-2] Hodgson, CJ The scale insect family Coccidae: an identification manual to genera. - Wallingford, Oxon, UK: CAB International, 1994. - P. 1-639.

[Hall1923-3] Hempel, A. 1912. [Catalogs of the Brazilian Fauna published by the Museu Paulista S. Paulo.] Catalogs da fauna Brasileira editados pello Museu Paulista S. Paulo - Brasil. Diario Official, Sao Paulo, 77 pp.

[4] Corseuil, E. Barbosa, VMB 1971. [The Coccidae family in the Rio Grande do Sul (Homoptera, Coccoidea).] A familia Coccidae no Rio Grande do Sul (Homoptera, Coccoidea). Arquivos do Museu Nacional, Rio de Janeiro 54: 237–241.

[5] Ben-Dov, Y. 1993. A systematic catalog of the soft scale insects of the world (Homoptera: Coccoidea: Coccidae). Sandhill Crane Press, Gainesville, FL, 536 pp.