Description of a new species of Toumeyella Cockerell (Hemiptera, Coccidae) from Mexico, with a taxonomic key to Mexican species

摘要

Description of a new species of Tourneyella Cockerell (Hemiptera, Coccidae) from Mexico, with a taxonomic key to Mexican species. A new species of soft scale insect from Mexico, Toumeyella fontanai Kondo & Pellizzari sp. nov. is described and illustrated. A taxonomic key to the species of scale insects of the genus Toumeyella Cockerell known in Mexico is provided.According to the scale insects database ScaleNet (Ben-Dov et al. 2010), currently there are 14 species of soft scale insects included in the genus Toumeyella Cockerell, which are distributed in Brazil (2 spp.), Cuba (1 sp.), Mexico (4 spp.) and the United States (9 spp.).