Antonina milleri Williams
Creators: name: Wu, San-An
name: Lu, Yuan
name: Nan, Nan
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2012
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Arthropoda
Insecta
Hemiptera
Pseudococcidae
Antonina
Antonina milleri

description: Antonina milleri Williams
Antonina milleri Williams, 2004: 66.
Antonina zonata Green; Hendricks & Kosztarab, 1999: 130 (misidentification, in part for lots collected from China and Malaysia); Wu, 2001: 45 (misidentification).
Chaetococcus zonatus (Green); Tang, 1992: 29 (misidentification).
Chaetococcus zonata (Green); Wang, 2001: 39 (misidentification).
Distribution. Anhui, Beijing, Fujian, Guizhou, Guangdong, Guangxi, Hubei, Jiangsu, Jiangxi, Yunnan, Zhejiang.
Host plants. Bambusa pervariabilis, B. ventricosa, Dendrocalamus latiflorus, Indocalamus sp., Neosinocalamus affinis, Pleioblastus amarus, Phyllostachys bambusoides, P. glauca, P. h e t e ro c l a d a, P. nigra, P. propinqua, P. pubescens, Sasa sinica; Sasa sp., Sinarundinaria nitida (Poaceae).
Biology. Living mainly at the axils of branches, on stem nodes, and on aerial roots of various bamboos. In many cases, it also lives in ant nests in bamboo stems and branches. This species is an important pest of bamboo in China, and can cause heavy damage to its hosts, even death.
Material examined. 5ƤƤ, ANHUI: Qingyang county, on Indocalamus sp., 24 March 1979, coll. Shi-jun Wu; 1Ƥ, ANHUI: Maanshan city, on bamboo, 1979, coll. Shi-jun Wu; 3ƤƤ, ANHUI: Ningguo county, on Phyllostachys heteroclada, 9 July 2003, coll. Yong-sheng Chai; 5ƤƤ, ANHUI: Mt. Jiuhua, on Sasa.sp., 31 May 2010, coll. San-an Wu; 3ƤƤ, ANHUI: Mt. Jiuhua, on Indocalamus sp., 1 June 2010, coll. San-an Wu; 5ƤƤ, ANHUI: Mt. Huangshan, on Sasa sinica, 14 May 1999, coll. San-an Wu; 4ƤƤ, ANHUI: Anhui University, Hefei city, on Phyllostachys propinqua, 2 June 2010, coll. San-an Wu; 4ƤƤ, ANHUI: Hefei city, on P. heteroclada, 2 June 2010, coll. San-an Wu; 11ƤƤ, BEIJING: Beijing Forestry University, on P. propinqua, 1–5 Sept.2009, coll. San-an Wu; 66ƤƤ, BEIJING: Zizhu park, on P. bambusoides, 9 Oct.2003, coll. Yong-sheng Chai; 10ƤƤ, BEIJING: Tsinghua University, on P. propinqua, 14 Oct. 2003, coll. Yong-sheng Chai; 4ƤƤ, BEIJING: Tsinghua University, on P. propinqua, 26 Jan.2010, coll. Yuan Lu; 3ƤƤ, BEIJING: Renmin University, on P. propinqua, 15 May 2010, coll. Nan Nan; 1Ƥ, BEIJING: Botanical garden, on Bambusa pervariabilis, May 1987; 11ƤƤ, GUIZHOU: Suiyang County, 10 Aug. 2010, on Phyllostachys pubescens, Coll. San-an Wu and Yuan Lu; 9ƤƤ, GUANGDONG: Ruyang county, on Sinarundinaria nitida, 23 Aug. 2010, Coll. San-an Wu and Yuan Lu; 5ƤƤ, GUANGDONG: Guangzhou city, on bamboo, 18 Oct. 2011, coll. San-an Wu; 18ƤƤ, GUANGXI: Qingxiushan Park, Nanning city, on Phyllostachy nigra, 6 Nov. coll. San-an Wu; 3ƤƤ, GUANGXI: Nanning city, on bamboo, 4 Nov. 2009, coll. San-an Wu; 2ƤƤ, GUANGXI: Guangxi University, Nanning city, on Bambusa ventricosa, 5 Nov. 2009, coll. San-an Wu; 4ƤƤ, GAUNGXI: Ziyuan county, on bamboo, 22 June 1999, coll. San- an Wu; 3ƤƤ, HUBEI: Mt. Wudang, on bamboo, 16 Aug. 2011, coll. San-an Wu and Jun Deng; 6ƤƤ, HUBEI: Xiangyang city, on bamboo, 15 Aug. 2011, coll. San-an Wu and Jun Deng; 8ƤƤ, JIANGSU; Yangzhou city, on Dendrocalamus latiflorus, 20 May 2007, coll. San-an Wu; 2ƤƤ, JIANGSU; Yangzhou city, on bamboo, 29 June 1981, coll. Shi-jun Wu; 4ƤƤ, JIANGXI: Jiujiang city, on bamboo, 18 May 2011, coll. Nan Nan and Xiangxiang Xia; 2ƤƤ, YUNNAN: Kunming city, on Neosinocalamus affinis, 15 Sept. 1999, coll. San-an Wu; 10ƤƤ, ZHEJIANG: Deqing county, on Phyllostachys pubescens, 11 Aug. 2003, coll. Yong-sheng Chai; 3ƤƤ, ZHEJIANG: Lin-an city, on bamboo, Aug. 9, 2008, coll. Jin Liu; 5ƤƤ, ZHEJIANG: Taishun county, on Phyllostachys glauca, 4 Aug. 2005, coll. San-an Wu; 2ƤƤ, ZHEJIANG: Mt. Tianmu, on Phyllostachys propinqua, 4 Apr. 1999, coll. San-an Wu; 3ƤƤ, ZHEJIANG: Mt. Tianmu, on bamboo, 4 Apr. 1999, coll. San-an Wu; 1Ƥ, ZHEJIANG: Mt. Tianmu, on Pleioblastus amarus, 4 Apr. 1999, coll. San-an Wu.
description: Published as part of Wu, San-An, Lu, Yuan & Nan, Nan, 2012, A review of the genus Antonina Signoret in China (Hemiptera: Coccoidea: Pseudococcidae), with description of a new species, pp. 27-42 in Zootaxa 3514 on page 31, DOI: 10.5281/zenodo.282571