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.