Parthenolecanium rufulum
(Oak Soft Scale)Taxonomy
- Kingdom: Animalia
- Linnaeus, 1758 - animals
- Phylum: Arthropoda
- Latreille, 1829 - arthropods
- Class: Insecta
- Insects
- Order: Hemiptera
- True Bugs
- Family: Geometroidea
- Genus: Parthenolecanium
Sulc, 1908
- Specific name: rufulum (Cockerell, 1903)
- Scientific name: Parthenolecanium rufulum (Cockerell, 1903)
- Specific name: rufulum (Cockerell, 1903)
- Genus: Parthenolecanium
Sulc, 1908
- Family: Geometroidea
- Order: Hemiptera
- True Bugs
- Class: Insecta
- Insects
- Phylum: Arthropoda
- Latreille, 1829 - arthropods
Unambiguous Synonyms:
- Eulecanium alni rufulum Cockerell, 1903
- Eulecanium pulchrum Sanders, 1906
- Eulecanium pulchrum Schmutterer, 1952
- Eulecanium pulchrum Schmutterer, 1954
- Lecanium pulchrum Gómez-Menor Ortega, 1959
- Lecanium pulchrum Marchal, 1908
- Lecanium pulchrum Reh, 1903
- Lecanium pulchrum Šulc, 1932
- Palaeolecanium rufulum Lindinger, 1932
- Parthenolecanium rufulum Borchsenius, 1957
Misapplied Names:
- Eulecanium pulchrum Bodenheimer, 1953
- Lecanium quercus Signoret, 1873
Notes:
Name Status: Accepted Name. Latest taxonomic scrutiny: Ben-Dov Y..
Distribution
Range and Population
Italy, Poland, Crete, United Kingdom, Ukraine, Turkey, Switzerland, Spain, Russia, Romania, Yugoslavia, Austria, France, Armenia, Moldova, Bulgaria, Czech Republic, Germany, Hungary
Similar Species
Members of the genus Parthenolecanium:
There are approximately 23 species and subspecies in this genus: P. pomeranicum · P. pomeranicum · P. rufulum · P. cerasifex · P. corni corni · P. corni apuliae · P. corni corni (Brown Scale) · P. corni corni · P. fletcheri (Fletcher Scale) · P. glandi · P. orientalis · P. percicae · P. perlatum · P. persicae persicae · P. persicae persicae (European Peach Scale) · P. pomeranicum (Yew Scale) · P. pruinosum (Frosted Scale) · P. putmani · P. quercifex (Oak Lecanium) · P. rufulum (Oak Soft Scale) · P. smreczynskii · P. tamaricis · P. viticis
Bibliography
- Ben-Dov, Y. 1978 Taxonomy of the nigra scale, {Parasaissetia} {nigra} (Nietner) (Homoptera: Coccoidea: Coccidae), with observations on mass rearing and parasites of an Israeli strain. Phytoparasitica
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Notes
Contributors:
- Bisby, F.A., Y.R. Roskov, M.A. Ruggiero, T.M. Orrell, L.E. Paglinawan, P.W. Brewer, N. Bailly, J. van Hertum, eds (2007). Species 2000 & ITIS Catalogue of Life: 2007 Annual Checklist. Species 2000: Reading, U.K.
- Brands, S.J. (comp.) 1989-2006. Systema Naturae 2000. The Taxonomicon. Universal Taxonomic Services, Amsterdam, The Netherlands. Accessed October 4, 2006.
- Global Biodiversity Information Facility. Accessed January 14, 2008. http://www.gbif.org Mediated distribution data from provider.
- LepIndex: The Global Lepidoptera Names Index
- Orthoptera Species File Online, 2.5, 2006.
- ScaleNet
- Species Fungorum 2006.
- Systematic Database of the Scale Insects of the World 2004.
- The International Plant Names Index. Accessed Jan 19, 2007.
- Universal Chalcidoidea Database 2005.
- World Checklist of Selected Plant FamiliesFeb 2, 2006.
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