Cryptinglisia Cockerell

Kondo, Takumasa & Gullan, Penny J., 2010, The Coccidae (Hemiptera: Coccoidea) of Chile, with descriptions of three new species and transfer of Lecanium resinatum Kieffer & Herbst to the Kerriidae, Zootaxa 2560, pp. 1-15 : 3

Genus Cryptinglisia Cockerell

Cryptinglisia Cockerell, 1900: 173 .

Type species: Cryptinglisia lounsburyi Cockerell, 1900: 173 . By monotypy.

Cryptinglisia has hitherto included 4 species, namely C. lounsburyi , C. elytropappi (Brain) , C. patagonica Granara de Willink and C. ziziphy (Brain) (Ben-Dov et al., 2009) . The new species, described below, shares the following features with C. lounsburyi , the type species of the genus: (1) insects in life with a semitransparent, glassy and brittle test; (2) preopercular pores present in a linear group anterior to anal plates; (3) derm entirely membranous apart from a heavily sclerotized, elongate, crescent around anal plates; (4) marginal setae sharply spinose, with a broad base and well-developed basal socket; (5) spiracular pores with 5 loculi; (6) a single stigmatic spine per stigmatic cleft; (7) perivulvar pores with 5 loculi; and (8) ventral tubular ducts of 1 type, present in a broad submarginal band, and also present medially.