A new genus and species of armored scale insect (Hemiptera: Diaspididae) from Australia found in the historic Koebele Collection of the California Academy of Sciences

Authors

John W. Dooley III, Animal and Plant Health Inspection ServiceFollow
Gregory A. Evans, USDA Systematic Entomology Laboratory, Beltsville, MDFollow

Document Type

Article

Date of this Version

3-23-2012

Comments

Insecta Mundi 0218: 1-14

Published in 2012 by Center for Systematic Entomology, Inc. P. O. Box 141874 Gainesville, FL 32614-1874 U. S. A. http://www.centerforsystematicentomology.org/

Abstract

A new genus and species of armored scale insect (Hemiptera: Diaspididae), Protomorgania koebelei Dooley and Evans, is described and illustrated from specimens collected by Albert Koebele on Pittosporum sp. (Pittosporaceae) in Australia around the year 1900. A key to the genera of armored scale insects similar to Protomorgania and known to occur in Australia is provided.