Abstract
Three new scale insect species, Coccidohystrix daedalea Gavrilov-Zimin sp. nov., Mirococcopsis ptilura Gavrilov-Zimin sp. nov. (both from the family Pseudococcidae) and Cryptinglisia millari Gavrilov-Zimin sp. nov. (family Coccidae), are described and illustrated from the Western Cape Province of South Africa.
Highlights
Scale insects are sap-sucking plant parasites which comprise about 8000 nominal species and are known from all biogeographical regions
The newly described species belong to two major scale insect families, Pseudococcidae and Coccidae, which each comprise about 100 species in the fauna of South Africa
South African Pseudococcidae comprise at least 13 genera and 68 species recorded only from this country (Millar 2002) and most of these species live on the aerial parts of plants
Summary
Scale insects are sap-sucking plant parasites which comprise about 8000 nominal species and are known from all biogeographical regions. South Africa and especially the Cape Floristic Region are characterized by an enormously rich and comparatively well studied fauna of scale insects, with more than 500 species from 11 families (see compilative database ScaleNet: García Morales et al 2016). A series of special papers on scale insects of this region was published by Brain (1915, 1918, 1919, 1920a, 1920b and others), De Lotto (1958, 1967a, 1967b, 1969 and others), Munting (1965, 1973, 1977 and others), Millar (2002) and some other authors, the reader can find comprehensive analysis of the fauna in those publications. In November 2016 the second author collected several species of scale insects in the Cape Region, three of which (two from the family Pseudococcidae and one —from Coccidae) are new for science and will be described below
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