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ABSTRACT:
SUBMITTER: Tanaka H
PROVIDER: S-EPMC5904391 | biostudies-literature | 2018
REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature
ZooKeys 20180219 738
Two mealybug species (Hemiptera: Coccomorpha: Pseudococcidae), <i>Pelionella osakaensis</i><b>sp. n.</b> and <i>P. manifecta</i> (Borchsenius, 1949), are described and illustrated based on adult female specimens collected in Japan, on the Japanese mugwort Artemisia indica Willd. var. maximowiczii (Nakai) H. Hara (Asteraceae). These are the first records of the occurrence of <i>Pelionella</i> species in East Asia. The new species is similar to <i>P. grassiana</i> (Goux, 1989) and <i>P. proeminens ...[more]