Species: Dysmicoccus neobrevipes Beardsley - Catalog
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Common name: Annona mealybug

Field Characters: Body oval or rotund; gray or gray-orange; legs yellowish brown; body covered by flocculent white mealy wax, without bare areas on dorsum; dorsal ovisac absent, a few filamentous strands on venter; with 17 pairs of conspicuous lateral wax filaments, often slightly curved, posterior pairs longest, one-third to one-half as long as body, anterior filaments shorter than posterior pairs. Primarily occurring on above ground parts of host. Ovoviviparous.

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Validation characters: Discoidal pores near eye; dorsomedial setae on segment VIII about same length as those on segments VI and VII; abdominal cerarii anterior of anal-lobe pair, usually with more than 2 conical setae; ventral multiloculars normally confined to posterior 3 abdominal segments; ventral oral collars absent from laterad of anterior coxa; 17 pairs of cerarii; translucent pores on hind femur and tibia.

Comparison: Dysmicoccus neobrevipes is most similar to D. brevipes by having discoidal pores near the eyes, ventral multiloculars normally restricted to segments VI, VII, and VIII, translucent pores on hind femur and tibia, and no ventral oral collars laterad of front coxae. Dysmicoccus brevipes differs by having dorsal setae on dorsomedial area of segment VIII conspicuously longer than those on segments VII and VI.

U.S. quarantine notes: This species has been taken from all zoogeographic regions on a wide diversity of hosts. It is commonly intercepted from southern Asia, particularly the Philippines, on a diversity of tropical fruits, and from many areas in South America on agave and tropical fruits. Several species of Dysmicoccus, other than D. brevipes, D. boninsis, D. grassii, D. neobrevipes, and Dysmicoccus sp. nr. bispinosus have been taken in quarantine including: D. finitimus Williams (southern Asia), D. hambletoni Williams and Granara de Willink (Ecuador), D. lansii Williams (Philippines), D. lepelleyi (Betrem)(southern Asia), D. mackenziei Beardsley (Central America and Mexico on bromeliads), D. orchidum Williams (southern Asia on orchids), D. probrevipes (Morrison)(Central and South America); D. viatorius Williams (Philippines).

References: Beards1959a; WilliaWa1988a; WilliaGr1992; Willia2004.

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