Arctorthezia
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Ordo: Hemiptera
Familia: Ortheziidae
Name
Arctorthezia Cockerell, 1902 – Wikispecies link – Pensoft Profile
- Orthezia (Arctorthezia) Cockerell 1902[1]: 114. Type species: Orthezia occidentalis Douglas, 1891.
- Arctorthezia, Morrison 1925[2]: 143 (as subgenus). Change of status.
- Arctorthezia, Morrison 1952: 53 (as genus). Change of status.
Type species
Orthezia occidentalis Douglas, 1891: 245. Subsequently designated by Cockerell 1902[1]: 259.
Comments
Cockerell (1902)[1] described Arctorthezia as a “section” of Orthezia. According to the International Code of Zoological Nomenclature, Article 10 (e) a “section” is deemed to be a subgeneric name when proposed for a species-group division of a genus. Thus, Cockerell is considered to be the author of Arctorthezia (Kozár 2004[3]).
Description
Unmounted female. Live adult female with 9 pairs dorsal wax plates in each marginal row, 8 pairs in each submedian band, and 3 triangular or shield-shaped plates in centre of thorax. Ovisac parallel sided, short, about half length of body (Fig. 5).
Mounted female. Antenna 7 or 8 segmented, covered with strong spines; apical seta a blunted strong spine. Claw without denticle. Abdominal spiracles numbering 7 or 8 pairs, situated on margin of dorsum. Three triangular wax plates present on mid-dorsum. Three or four rows of spines present within ovisac band.
Host plant
Found under mosses and stones on the roots of different plants, also reported from ant nests.
Distribution
The known species are distributed only in the Holarctic Region.
Key to adult females of species of Arctorthezia
Unfortunately the type material of Arctorthezia vardziae was not available. For this reason we could not include this species in the key. In the original description, Hadzibejli (1963)[4] only provided generic characters that refer to the genus description, so further studies are needed to clarify the species concept of Arctorthezia vardziae.
Taxon Treatment
- Szita, É; Kaydan, M; Benedicty, Z; Tanaka, H; Fetykó, K; Kozár, F; 2015: The genus Arctorthezia Cockerell (Hemiptera, Ortheziidae) with the description of a new species ZooKeys, (472): 59-75. doi
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Other References
- ↑ 1.0 1.1 1.2 Cockerell T (1902) The nomenclature of the Coccidae. The Entomologist 35: 114.
- ↑ Morrison H (1925) Classification of scale insects of the subfamily Ortheziinae. Journal of Agricultural Research 30: 97–154.
- ↑ Kozár F (2004) Ortheziidae of the World. Plant Protection Institute, Hungarian Academy of Sciences, Budapest, Hungary, 525 pp.
- ↑ Hadzibejli Z (1963) [Coccids of the family Ortheziidae (Homoptera, Coccoidea) in the fauna of Georgia.] Entomologicheskoe Obozrenye 42: 611–620. [In Russian]
