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Mealybugs of the genus Heliococcus Šulc (Homoptera, Pseudococcidae) of the fauna of Russia and adjacent countries

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A key to, and reviews of 30 species of the genus Heliococcus from the former USSR, Mongolia, and North Korea are given. All the species discussed are illustrated and redescribed. A new species, H. astragali sp. n., is described. Lectotypes are designated for nine nominal species. The following new synonymies are established: Heliococcus atraphaxidis Baz. (= inconspicuous Baz., = kirgisicus Baz.); H. bohemicus Šulc (= danzigae Baz.); H. destructor Borchs. (= kehejanae Ter-Grig., = slavonicus Borchs. et Terezn., = ziziphi Borchs.); H. halocnemi Borchs. (= xerophilus Mat.); H. radicicola Goux (= saxatilis Borchs.); H. sulcii Goux (= marginalis Goux, = tesquorum Borchs., = caucasicus Borchs., = artemisiae Ter-Grig.), syn. nn.

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Original Russian Text © E.M. Danzig, 2007, published in Entomologicheskoe Obozrenie, 2007, Vol. 86, No. 3, pp. 567–609.

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Danzig, E.M. Mealybugs of the genus Heliococcus Šulc (Homoptera, Pseudococcidae) of the fauna of Russia and adjacent countries. Entmol. Rev. 87, 988–1025 (2007). https://doi.org/10.1134/S0013873807080052

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