A New Species of the Mealybug Genus Mirococcus (Hemiptera: Coccomorpha: Pseudococcidae) from the Cape Verde Islands, with New Records and an Updated Checklist of Scale Insect Species

Bożena Łagowska; Katarzyna Golan; Christopher J Hodgson

doi:10.3390/insects13110999

A New Species of the Mealybug Genus Mirococcus (Hemiptera: Coccomorpha: Pseudococcidae) from the Cape Verde Islands, with New Records and an Updated Checklist of Scale Insect Species

Insects. 2022 Oct 31;13(11):999. doi: 10.3390/insects13110999.

Authors

Bożena Łagowska¹, Katarzyna Golan¹, Christopher J Hodgson²

Affiliations

¹ Department of Plant Protection, University of Life Sciences in Lublin, Leszczyńskiego 7, 20-069 Lublin, Poland.
² Department of Biodiversity and Biological Systematics, The National Museum of Wales, Cardiff CF10 3NP, UK.

Abstract

In this study, a new species of mealybug from the Cape Verde Islands, Mirococcus capeverdensis Łagowska and Hodgson sp. n., collected on Campylanthus glaber Benth. (Scrophulariaceae), a native plant to these islands, is described and illustrated based on the adult female. A taxonomic key to the mealybugs from the Afrotropical Region that lack cerarii is provided. In addition, seven scale insect species, namely Aulacaspis tubercularis Newstead, Hemiberlesia cyanophylli (Signoret), Pseudaonidia trilobitiformis (Green), Icerya aegyptiaca (Douglas), Maconellicoccus hirsutus (Green), Palmicultor palmarum (Ehrhorn), and Pseudococcus comstocki (Kuwana) are recorded for the first time from the Cape Verde Islands and an updated checklist of Coccomorpha species known from this region, along with their known island distributions and valid sources, is appended.

Keywords: coccoids; distribution; fauna; list; locality data.

Grants and funding

This research was funded by the University of Life Sciences in Lublin, grant number OKK/S/44, in 2019–2022.