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Seyneria oligocerariferasp. n. and Trionymus sengirkumensissp. n. (Pseudococcidae) are described based on the material collected in Mangystau and Atyrau provinces of Kazakhstan. Five other species of mealybugs and one species of armored scale insects (Diaspididae) are recorded for the first time for Kazakhstan. Color photographs of all the reported species taken under the natural conditions are provided.
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Acknowledgments
The second author is very grateful to S.V. Kornev (Orenburg Regional Children’s and Youth Multi-type Center) and D.F. Shovkun (Samara University) for organizing and carrying out the expedition to Western Kazakhstan in 2016 and also for their all-round aid, support, and positive working atmosphere during the field studies. In addition, the authors are grateful to I.V. Sharonova (Samara University) for identification of most of the host plants of the scale insects and to I.N. Safronova (the Botanical Institute, Russian Academy of Sciences, St. Petersburg) for identification of wormwoods and for valuable consultations.
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The study of the first author is performed within the framework of budgetary project of the Laboratory of Insect Systematics of the Zoological Institute, Russian Academy of Sciences, no. AAAA-A19-119020690101-6.
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Russian Text © The Author(s), 2019, published in Entomologicheskoe Obozrenie, 2019, Vol. 98, No. 3, pp. 632–644.
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Gavrilov-Zimin, I.A., Kurochkin, A.S. Additions to the Scale Insect Fauna (Homoptera, Coccinea) of Kazakhstan. Entmol. Rev. 99, 645–655 (2019). https://doi.org/10.1134/S0013873819050087
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