Abdel-Razak Soad I, Matile-Ferrero Daniele, Soulier-Perkins Adeline
Agricultural Research Centre, Plant Protection Research Institute, Scale Insects and Mealybugs Dept., Alexandria, Egypt; current: University of Hafr Albatin, Faculty of Sciences, Biology Dept., Saudi Arabia.
Muséum national d'Histoire naturelle, Institut de Systématique, Evolution, Biodiversité, ISYEB-UMR 7205 MNHN-CNRS-UPMC-EPHE, 57 rue Cuvier, CP 50, FR-75005 Paris, France.
Zookeys. 2017 Jan 25(647):101-107. doi: 10.3897/zookeys.647.11225. eCollection 2017.
The soft scale, (Newstead, 1911), is a major pest of sugarcane in Egypt. This paper provides a redescription and illustration of the adult female based on a microscopic study of the morphology of several adult female specimens and of the type series illustrated by De Lotto (1965) on citronella grass from Uganda. Two paratypes of De Lotto, 1964 are also studied and the name is placed here as a junior synonym of .
软蜡蚧（纽斯特德，1911年）是埃及甘蔗的主要害虫。本文基于对多个成年雌虫标本形态的微观研究以及德洛托（1965年）对乌干达香茅上的模式系列的图示，对成年雌虫进行了重新描述和绘图。还研究了德洛托1964年的两个副模式标本，并在此将该名称列为[另一物种名称]的次异名。
