Joshi Sunil, Amarendra B, Mendonce Viyolla Pavana, Sushil S N
National Bureau of Agricultural Insect Resources (ICAR - NBAIR); Post Bag No. 2491; H.A. Farm post; Bellary Road; Bengaluru 560 024; Karnataka; India.
Department of Zoology; St Joseph's University; 36 Langford Road; Bengaluru 560 027; Karnataka; India.
Zootaxa. 2024 Apr 24;5443(4):567-579. doi: 10.11646/zootaxa.5443.4.5.
A new mealybug species, Paraputo blackmani Joshi, sp. n. (Hemiptera: Coccomorpha: Pseudococcidae) is described and illustrated based on adult females collected from Butea monosperma (Fabaceae), in Bengaluru Rural district, Karnataka, southern India. The new mealybug is most similar morphologically to P. mazoensis (Hall). Ants belonging to the genus Nylanderia were found tending the mealybugs; notes on the ecological associates of the mealybug and a key to adult females of all the species of Paraputo recorded from India are provided.
描述并图示了一种新的粉蚧物种，即黑曼尼副普托粉蚧（Paraputo blackmani Joshi, sp. n.）（半翅目：蚧亚目：粉蚧科），该物种基于从印度南部卡纳塔克邦班加罗尔农村地区的独龙树（豆科）上采集的成年雌虫。这种新粉蚧在形态上与马佐恩斯副普托粉蚧（P. mazoensis (Hall)）最为相似。发现尼氏蚁属的蚂蚁照料这些粉蚧；提供了关于该粉蚧生态关联物种的记录以及印度记录的所有副普托属物种成年雌虫的检索表。
