Overview
Phenacoleachiidae is a family of scale insects commonly known as the phenacoleachiids. They are found only on the south island of New Zealand and certain offshore islands. There are two species in a single genus.1]
Hosts
Phenacoleachia zealandica is found on southern beech trees and Phenacoleachia australis is found on Pleurophyllum species, daisy-like plants in the Asteraceae family.[1]
Description
The adult females phenacoleachiids are brownish-red and dusted with a white mealy powder and covered with a cottony wax. There are some coarse yellow curly threads and some short lateral filaments on the rear half of the abdomen. They have short legs and resemble mealybugs in appearance but are believed to be more closely realated to the primitive ortheziids and margarodoids than to the higher scale families such as the pseudococcids.[2] The adult males are reddish-yellow, large than the females and covered with white mealy wax. They have two lateral filaments. The first instars are yellowish-red covered with the same white mealy wax.[1]
Life cycle
Little is known of the life history of this family of scale insects.[1]
Genera
Life cycle
Little is known of the life history of this family of scale insects.[1]
Genera
References
- ^ a < sup>b c d UDSA Agricultural Research Service
- ^ Gullan, P.J. & Cook, L.G. 2002 (2001). Phenacoleachia Cockerell (Hemiptera: Coccoidea: Phenacoleachiidae) re-visited. Bollettino di Zoologia Agraria e di Bachicoltura (Milano) 33(3): 163-173.
- ^ Maskell, W.M. 1891 (1890). Further coccid notes: with descriptions of new species from New Zealand, Australia, and Fiji. Transactions and Proceedings of the New Zealand Institute 23: 1-36.
- ^ Beardsley, J.W. 1964b. Insects of Campbell Island. Homoptera: Coccoidea. Pacific Insects (Monog.) 7: 238-252.
Taxonomy
The Family Phenacoleachiidae is a member of the Superfamily Coccoidea. Here is the complete "parentage" of Phenacoleachiidae:
- Domain: Eukaryota
Whittaker & Margulis,1978 - eukaryotes
- Kingdom: Animalia
C. Linnaeus, 1758 - animals
- Subkingdom: Bilateria
(Hatschek, 1888) Cavalier-Smith, 1983 - bilaterians
- Branch: Protostomia
Grobben, 1908 - protostomes
- Infrakingdom: Ecdysozoa
A.M.A. Aguinaldo et al., 1997 ex T. Cavalier-Smith, 1998 - ecdysozoans
- Superphylum: Panarthropoda
Cuvier
- Phylum: Arthropoda
Latreille, 1829 - Arthropods
- Subphylum: Mandibulata
Snodgrass, 1938
- Infraphylum: Atelocerata
Heymons, 1901
- Superclass: Panhexapoda
- Class: Insecta
C. Linnaeus, 1758 - Insects
- Subclass: Dicondylia
- Infraclass: Pterygota
- Winged Insects
- Superorder: Condylognatha
- Order: Hemiptera
C. Linnaeus, 1758 - True Bugs, Cicadas, Hoppers, Aphids and Allies
- Suborder: Sternorrhyncha
- Plant Lice
- Infraorder: Aphidomorpha
- Superfamily: Coccoidea
(Fallén, 1814)
- Family: Phenacoleachiidae
- Superfamily: Coccoidea
(Fallén, 1814)
- Infraorder: Aphidomorpha
- Suborder: Sternorrhyncha
- Plant Lice
- Order: Hemiptera
C. Linnaeus, 1758 - True Bugs, Cicadas, Hoppers, Aphids and Allies
- Superorder: Condylognatha
- Infraclass: Pterygota
- Winged Insects
- Subclass: Dicondylia
- Class: Insecta
C. Linnaeus, 1758 - Insects
- Superclass: Panhexapoda
- Infraphylum: Atelocerata
Heymons, 1901
- Subphylum: Mandibulata
Snodgrass, 1938
- Phylum: Arthropoda
Latreille, 1829 - Arthropods
- Superphylum: Panarthropoda
Cuvier
- Infrakingdom: Ecdysozoa
A.M.A. Aguinaldo et al., 1997 ex T. Cavalier-Smith, 1998 - ecdysozoans
- Branch: Protostomia
Grobben, 1908 - protostomes
- Subkingdom: Bilateria
(Hatschek, 1888) Cavalier-Smith, 1983 - bilaterians
- Kingdom: Animalia
C. Linnaeus, 1758 - animals
The Family Phenacoleachiidae is further organized into finer groupings including:
- Genus (1): Phenacoleachia
- Species: ZipcodeZoo has pages for 2 species and subspecies in the Family Phenacoleachiidae.
Genera
Phenacoleachia
More info about the Genus Phenacoleachia may be found here.
References
- ^ a b c d UDSA Agricultural Research Service
- ^ Gullan, P.J. & Cook, L.G. 2002 (2001). Phenacoleachia Cockerell (Hemiptera: Coccoidea: Phenacoleachiidae) re-visited. Bollettino di Zoologia Agraria e di Bachicoltura (Milano) 33(3): 163-173.
- ^ Maskell, W.M. 1891 (1890). Further coccid notes: with descriptions of new species from New Zealand, Australia, and Fiji. Transactions and Procee dings of the New Zealand Institute 23: 1-36.
- ^ Beardsley, J.W. 1964b. Insects of Campbell Island. Homoptera: Coccoidea. Pacific Insects (Monog.) 7: 238-252.
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