Paraputo Laing 1929
Creators: name: Liu, Qing
name: Tan, Zhixiang
name: Xing, Jichun
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2025
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Arthropoda
Insecta
Hemiptera
Pseudococcidae
Paraputo

description: Genus Paraputo Laing, 1929
Paraputo Laing, 1929: 473. Type species Paraputo ritchiei Laing, 1929, by original designation and monotypy (= Ripersia anomala Newstead, 1908).
Cataenococcus Ferris, 1955: 3. Type species Dactylopius olivaceus Cockerell, 1896, by original designation. Synonymised by Tang 1992: 304.
Lachnodiopsis Borchsenius, 1960: 923. Type species Lachnodiopsis szemaoensis Borchsenius, 1960, by original designation. Synonymised by Williams 2004: 484.
Generic diagnosis based on the morphology of the adult female (adapted from Williams 2004). Body broadly oval to rotund. Antennae each 6‒8 segmented. Legs well developed, stout, tibia + tarsus usually shorter than trochanter + femur; translucent pores normally present on hind coxae; claw stout, without a denticle. Anal ring generally situated on dorsum, at least its own length from apex of abdomen, bearing 6 or multiple setae. Circulus present or absent. Cerarii numbering 5–18 pairs; cerarii on posterior abdominal segments (including anal lobe cerarii) usually each containing multiple conical setae; sometimes intermediate cerarii or intermediate conical setae present between cerarii. Ostioles well developed, with inner edges of lips sclerotized. Multilocular disc-pores present, rarely absent. Oral collar tubular ducts present, usually across medial area and sometimes in marginal groups. Anal lobes ventrally membranous or with various degrees of sclerotization, but never with an anal lobe bar. Dorsal setae usually minute and stiff, ventral surface usually with normal flagellate setae.
Key to Chinese species of Paraputo based on adult female morphology (partly based on Li et al. 2024)
1(0) Cerarii numbering 5–7 pairs....................................................... P. szemaoensis (Borchsenius)
- Cerarii numbering 11–18 pairs........................................................................... 2
2(1) Anal ring bearing 6 setae............................................................................... 3
- Anal ring bearing more than 6 setae....................................................................... 7
3(2) Translucent pores present on hind coxa.................................................................... 4 - Translucent pores absent from hind coxa................................................. P. porosus Borchsenius
4(3) Hind leg with translucent pores on coxa and femur and tibia................................................... 5
- Hind leg with translucent pores on coxa only............................................................... 6
5(4) Oral collar tubular ducts present on ventral margins of thorax.............................. P. ficiphilus (Borchsenius)
- Oral collar tubular ducts absent from ventral margins of thorax................................. P. banzigeri Williams
6(4) Oral collar tubular ducts present between antennal bases and clypeolabral shield............. P. yunnanensis Zhang & Wu
- Oral collar tubular ducts absent from between antennal bases and clypeolabral shield........... P. albizzicola Borchsenius
7(2) Cerarii numbering 17 pairs.................................................................. P. gasteris Wang
- Cerarii numbering 18 pairs.............................................................................. 8
8(7) Anal ring bearing 8–11 setae............................................................................ 9
- Anal ring bearing 20–26 setae.............................................. P. liboensis Liu, Tan & Xing sp. nov.
9(8) Translucent pores present on hind coxa................................................................... 10
- Translucent pores absent from hind coxa...................................................... P. comantis Wang
10(9) Antenna with 8 segments. Oral collar tubular ducts present between antennal bases and clypeus...... P. platani Zhang & Wu
- Antenna with 6 segments. Oral collar tubular ducts absent from between antennal bases and clypeus.................................................................................................... P. nanlingensis Li & Wu
description: Published as part of Liu, Qing, Tan, Zhixiang & Xing, Jichun, 2025, Two scale insect species (Hemiptera: Coccomorpha) associated with Chinese sweetgum in China, with description of a new species of Paraputo Laing, 1929 (Pseudococcidae), pp. 133-140 in Zootaxa 5590 (1) on pages 134-139, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.5590.1.8, http://zenodo.org/record/14952858