Crypticerya brasiliensis (Hempel)

Unruh, Corinne M. & Gullan, Penny J., 2008, Identification guide to species in the scale insect tribe Iceryini (Coccoidea: Monophlebidae), Zootaxa 1803 (1), pp. 1-106 : 27-28

Crypticerya brasiliensis (Hempel)

Icerya brasiliensis Hempel, 1900: 370 .

Crypticerya brasiliensis (Hempel) ; Unruh & Gullan (2008: 26) .

Unmounted material. Adult female pink, entirely covered in white secretion; one elongate waxy tuft present on end of body, these tufts often striated, each tuft flanked by two slightly smaller tufts; shorter rounded tufts present in submarginal row and medial longitudinal row; ovisac creamy white, fluted, distal end curved upward, with one or two longitudinal slits on middorsal surface through which first-instar nymphs escape (adapted from Hempel, 1900).

Slide-mounted material. Adult female oval (lectotype 5.4 mm long, 4.0 mm wide). Antennae 11 segmented. Eyes, mouthparts and legs as for tribe. Thoracic spiracles as for genus. Hair-like setae scattered across all segments, longest marginally, between antennae and at abdominal apex. Flagellate setae as for genus. Simple multilocular pores, each 10–12 µm in diameter with trilocular (rarely quadrilocular) centre and 6–8 outer loculi covering dorsal surface, densest around submargin and forming a medial longitudinal row on head and thorax. Simple multilocular pores, each 9–10 µm in diameter, with trilocular (appearing triangular), quadrilocular (appearing cruciform) or quinquelocular (appearing star-shaped) centre and 10–12 outer loculi present in segmental clusters of 6–14 on submedial dorsal head and thorax and submarginal ventral head and thorax. Simple multilocular pores, each 8–9 µm in diameter, with trilocular (appearing triangular), quadrilocular (appearing cruciform) or quinquelocular (appearing star-shaped) centre and 3–5 outer loculi, scattered on ventromedial head and thorax. Ovisac band made of two types of simple multilocular pores present on dorsal surface: (i) slightly larger pores forming inner band 6–8 pores wide, each pore 10–12 µm in diameter with trilocular to quadrilocular centre and 6–8 outer loculi, and (ii) smaller pores (appearing bluish when stained) forming outer ovisac band 3 or 4 pores wide, each pore 9–10 µm in diameter, with triangular, cruciform or star-shaped centre and 10–12 outer loculi. Simple multilocular pores each 8–9 µm in diameter, with bilocular centre and 4–6 outer loculi scattered in transverse rows on ventromedial abdomen. Vulvar opening as for genus. Cicatrices circular to oval, numbering 3. Abdominal spiracles as for genus. Anal ring and anal opening as for genus, surrounded by long hair-like setae.

Type data. BRAZIL: São Paulo State, Mandado do Iguape, ex Codiaeum sp. ; Ypiranga, ex Ficus, Rosa and other plants.

Type material. Lectotype here designated: ad ♀, “ Icerya / brasiliensis Hemp. / Co-type / Sao Paulo, Brazil./ Hempel, Coll.” ( USNM) . Paralectotypes: ad ♀ (same data as lectotype) ( USNM) ; ad ♀, “ Icerya brasiliensis / Hempel/ São Paulo, Brazil./ A. Hempel, Coll./Jan. 26m 1899/#8477” ( USNM) ; 2 3 rd -instar nymphs, 1 2 nd -instar nymph (one slide), “8577/ Icerya /braziliensis [sic]/Hempel/ A. Hempel (316)/ São Paulo, Brazil /Jan. 26. 99” ( USNM) ; 4 3 rd -instar nymphs (one slide), “8477./ Icerya /braziliensis/Hempel/ A. Hempel (316)/ São Paulo, Brazil /Jan. 26. 99” ( USNM) ; 8 1 st -instar nymphs (one slide), “ Icerya /brasiliensis/Hemp./larvae/ São Paulo, Brazil./ A. Hempel, Coll./ Jan. 26, 1899 /#8477” ( USNM) ; dry material ( USNM); additional material at MZSP ( Ben-Dov, 2005: 193) (not examined).

Taxonomic notes. Refer to C. montserratensis group for a discussion of similar species.

We were able to borrow some of Hempel's iceryine specimens from MZSP but there were no specimens of I. brasiliensis among them.