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Capulinia crateraformis Hempel, 1900 (Eriococcidae: Capulinia)

Nomenclatural History

• Capulinia crateraformis Hempel 1900: 3-4. Type data: BRAZIL: Minas Geraes, Sao Joao d'El Rei, on Eugenia jaboticaba, by A.da Silveira. Syntypes, female, Type depository: Berlin: Museum fur Naturkunde der Humboldt Universitat zu Berlin, Germany; Washington: United States National Entomological Collection, U.S. National Museum of Natural History, District of Columbia, USA; accepted valid name Notes: USNM has three boxes of dry material, two marked "type" and one marked "cotype."
• Capulinia crateraformans Hempel, 1900; Hempel 1900a: 397. misspelling of species epithet Notes: No explanation was given for the different spelling of the species epithet.

Common Names

Ecological Associates

Hosts:

Families: 1 | Genera: 1

Geographic Distribution

Keys

• KondoGuCo2016: pp.478 ( Adult (F) ) [Capulinia species]

Remarks

• Systematics: urn:lsid:zoobank.org:act:F46264F3-BE73-4B1D-8655-6CB76FC3E6AF Slide-mounted adult female with: antennae 5- or 6-segmented; without first 2 pair of legs; last legs not segmented and without a claw; last legs near posterior margin of body (Hempel, 1900)
• Structure: Adult female makes small crater-shaped galls in the bark, limbs and twigs of its host. The gall cavity inhabited by the female is smooth and lined with white powder. Adult female is small, oval, pink and dusted with a white powdery secretion. The female turns colorless in KOH (Hempel900).
• Economic Importance: This species can cause considerable damage to its host (Hempel, 1900).
• General Remarks: Hempel (1900) provides a good description.

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