Studies on Pseudococcidae (Hemiptera Coccoidea) fauna of urban ecosystem of Ankara Province, Turkey

Abstract

Ornamental, greenhouse and wild plants were surveyed between 2001 and 2004 in a study of the pseudococcid fauna of the urban areas of the province of Ankara, Turkey. In this study 52 species belonging to 19 genera of the family Pseudococcidae were identified. Atrococcus ater Goux, Atrococcus parvulus (Borchsenius), Coccidohystrix artemisiae (Kiritchenko), Heliococcus sulcii Goux, Heterococcopsis opertus Borchsenius, Heterococcus nudus (Green), Heterococcus tritici (Kiritchenko ), Longicoccus affinis (Ter-Grigorian), Longicoccus clarus (Borchsenius), Longicoccus festucae (Koteja), Longicoccus longiventris (Borchsenius), Longicoccus psammophilus (Koteja), Mirococcopsis elongatus Borchsenius, Mirococcopsis stipae Borchsenius, Neotrionymus monstatus Borchsenius, Peliococcopsis priesneri (Laing), Peliococcus salviae Hadzibejli, Peliococcus tritubulatus (Kiritchenko ), Phenacoccus ferulae Borchsenius, Phenacoccus interruptu Green, Phenacoccus loiki Danzig, Phenacoccus phenacoccoides (Kiritchenko), Phenacoccus transcaucasicus Hadzibejli, Puto palinuri Marotta & Tranfaglia, Rhizoecus periolanus (Goux) and Spilococcus mamillariae (Bouche) are new records for the Turkish pseudococcid fauna.