Studies on Pseudococcidae (Homoptera: Coccoidea) Fauna of Afyon, Ankara, Burdur and Isparta Provinces, Turkey

Authors: MEHMET BORA KAYDAN, SELMA ÜLGENTÜRK, CEVDET ZEKİ, SEVAL TOROS, M. OKTAY GÜRKAN

Abstract: Cultivated and non-cultivated areas were surveyed between 1999 and 2000 for coccoid fauna in Ankara, Afyon, Burdur and Isparta provinces. Nineteen species from 11 genera belonging to Pseudococcidae were found. Among these Chaetococcus phragmitis (Marchal, 1909), Phenacoccus bicerarius Borchsenius, 1949, Phenacoccus evelinae Tereznikova, 1968, Puto pilosellae (Sulc, 1898), Puto superbus (Leonardi, 1907), Rhodania porifera Goux, 1935, and Spinococcus morrisoni (Kritchenko, 1935) were new records for Turkish fauna.

Keywords: Pseudococcidae, Chaetococcus, Peliococcus, Phenacoccus, Planococcus, Puto, Rhodania, Spinococcus, Trionymus, Turkey

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