| symbiotic microorganisms in puto superbus (leonardi, 1907) (insecta, hemiptera, coccomorpha: putoidae). | the scale insect puto superbus (putoidae) lives in mutualistic symbiotic association with bacteria. molecular phylogenetic analyses have revealed that symbionts of p. superbus belong to the gammaproteobacterial genus sodalis. in the adult females, symbionts occur both in the bacteriocytes constituting compact bacteriomes and in individual bacteriocytes, which are dispersed among ovarioles. the bacteriocytes also house a few small, rod-shaped wolbachia bacteria in addition to the numerous large, ... | 2018 | 28667411 |