Saccharicoccus isfarensis
Creators: name: Zhang, Jiang-Tao
name: Wu, Bo-Wen
name: Wu, San-An
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2018
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Arthropoda
Insecta
Hemiptera
Pseudococcidae
Saccharicoccus
Saccharicoccus isfarensis

description: Saccharicoccus isfarensis (Borchsenius, 1949)
Pseudococcus isfarensis Borchsenius 1949: 152.
Saccharicoccus penium Williams 1962: 50; Tang 1992: 216; Wang 2001: 93. Trionymus penium (Borchsenius): Danzig 1978: 12.
Trionymus isfarensis (Borchsenius): Tang 1992: 167 –168.
Saccharicoccus isfarensis (Borchsenius): Danzig & Gavrilov-Zimin 2015: 92.
Material examined, all from CHINA. One adult female (on 1 slide, the specimen on the slide from DNA-extracted voucher, Genbank no. MG214904), Zhejiang, Jiangshan City, Zhangcun Township, Shuangxikou Village [N 28° 23’, E 118° 41’], on Poaceae, 11.viii.2016, coll. Jiang-Tao Zhang & Qin-Gang Dong; 1 adult female (on 1 slide), Zhejiang, Zhoushan City, Dongshan Park [N 30° 00’, E 122° 07’], on Poaceae, 6.viii.2016, coll. Jiang-Tao Zhang & Qin-Gang Dong; 2 adult females (on 1 slide), Zhejiang, Zhoushan City, Taohua Island [N 29° 50’, E 122° 16’], on Poaceae, 4.viii.2016, coll. Jiang-Tao Zhang & Qin-Gang Dong; 1 adult female (on 1 slide), Zhejiang, Zhoushan City, Taohua Island [N 29° 50’, E 122° 16’], on Poaceae, 4.viii.2016, coll. Jiang-Tao Zhang & Qin-Gang Dong; 2 adult females (on 1 slide), Zhejiang, Ningbo City, Simingshan National Forest Park [N 29° 43’, E 121° 04’], on Poaceae, 2.viii.2016, coll. Jiang-Tao Zhang & Qin-Gang Dong; 2 adult females (on 1 slide), Zhejiang, Ningbo City, Simingshan National Forest Park [N 29° 43’, E 121° 04’], on Poaceae, 2.viii.2016, coll. Jiang-Tao Zhang & Qin- Gang Dong; 1 adult female (on 1 slide), Zhejiang, Ningbo City, Simingshan National Forest Park [N 29° 43’, E 121° 04’], on Poaceae, 1.viii.2016, coll. Jiang-Tao Zhang & Qin-Gang Dong; 4 adult females (on 1 slide), Zhejiang, Hangzhou City, Linan District [N 30° 14’, E 119° 43’], on Imperata sp.? (Poaceae), 6.viii.2008, coll. Jin Liu; 3 adult females (on 1 slide), Jilin, Jilin City, Songhua lake Park [N 43° 38’, E 126° 46’], on Cyperus sp. (Poaceae), 13.viii.2013, coll. San-An Wu & Xu-Bo Wang; 1 adult female (on 1 slide), Shaanxi, Baoji City, Fengxian County [N 33° 54’, E 106° 31’], on Poaceae, 4.ix.1999, San-An Wu; 3 adult female (on 2 slides), Henan, Nanyang City, Neixiang County, Xia Guan Town [N 33° 21’, E 111° 46’], on Calamagrostis sp. (Poaceae), 14.vii.1998, coll. San-An Wu.
Host-plants. Saccharicoccus isfarensis is only known on Poaceae. In China, it has been recorded on Agropyron sp., Agrostis sp., Beckmannia sp., B. syzigachne, Calamagrostis sp., Cyperus sp., Festuca sp., Imperata sp., Leymus chinensis, Poa sp. and Stipa sp. (Tang 1992; Wu 1997, 1999, 2009a, 2009b; Wang 2001; Tang et al. 2012).
Distribution. Oriental and Palaearctic. In China: Henan, Jilin, Inner Mongolia, Ningxia, Shaanxi, Shanxi and Zhejiang provinces (Tang 1992; Wu 1997, 1999, 2009a, 2009b; Wang 2001; Tang et al. 2012). Biology. Saccharicoccus isfarensis lives under the leaf sheaths of its host-plants.
description: Published as part of Zhang, Jiang-Tao, Wu, Bo-Wen & Wu, San-An, 2018, A review of the genus Saccharicoccus Ferris, 1950 (Hemiptera: Coccomorpha: Pseudococcidae) in China, with description of a new species, pp. 127-135 in Zootaxa 4375 (1) on pages 132-133, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.4375.1.7, http://zenodo.org/record/1158209