Pseudococcidae
Creators: name: Tanaka, Hirotaka
name: Kamitani, Satoshi
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2022
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Arthropoda
Insecta
Hemiptera
Pseudococcidae

description: Key to separate the genera Paracoccus, Spilococcus and other related genera with oral rim tubular ducts
(adapted and modified from Kaydan & Szita 2017)
1(0) Oral rim tubular ducts present, each with well-developed rim.................................................. 2
- Oral rim tubular ducts absent entirely.................................................... rest of Pseudococcinae
2(1) Cerarii entirely absent............................................. Humococcus Ferris and Bromusicoccus Kaydan
- At least anal lobe cerarii present......................................................................... 3
3(2) Multilocular disc pores absent from venter except occasionally for 1 or 2 around vulva.............. Distichlicoccus Ferris
- Multilocular disc pores present on venter at least around vulva................................................. 4
4(3) Some abdominal cerarii each with 3 or more conical setae................................................................................................... Moystonia Williams and Brasiliputo Williams & Granara de Willink
- All abdominal cerarii each with 2 conical setae.............................................................. 5
5(4) Cerarii numbering no more than 6 pairs, on abdomen only............................................................ Maconellicoccus Ezzat, Atrococcus Goux, Colombiacoccus Williams & Granara de Willink, and Vryburgia De Lotto.
- Cerarii numbering 9–18 pairs, not confined to abdomen....................................................... 6
6(5) Legs usually long and slender, extending well beyond margins of body; claws noticeably long, pointed and slender, usually straight; rims of oral rim tubular ducts, although well developed, fairly flat in profile.................. Leptococcus Reyne
- Legs rarely extending beyond margins of body; claws stout and curved; rims of oral rim tubular ducts elevated above derm when viewed in profile................................................................................. 7
7(6) Venter of each anal lobe with an anal lobe bar, present either forwards from apical seta or from bar seta only........................................................................................ Paracoccus Ezzat & McConnell
- Venter of each anal lobe without anal lobe bar, although differently shaped sclerotized area may be present.............. 8
8(7) Venter of each anal lobe with triangular-quadrate sclerotized area occupying much of lobe; auxiliary setae present at least in anal lobe cerarii and penultimate cerarii (C 17 and C 18)...................................... Pseudococcus Westwood
- Venter of each anal lobe without any sclerotized area; auxiliary setae present in anal lobe cerarii only..... Spilococcus Ferris
description: Published as part of Tanaka, Hirotaka & Kamitani, Satoshi, 2022, Review ofthegenus CrisicoccusFerris (Hemiptera: Coccomorpha: Pseudococcidae) in Japan with description of a new species, and the identity of a South Korean mealybug misidentified as Crisicoccus matsumotoi (Shiraiwa 1935), pp. 555-572 in Zootaxa 5209 (5) on pages 567-568, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.5209.5.3, http://zenodo.org/record/7340959