Valid Names Results

Capulinia jaboticabae Ihering, 1898 (Eriococcidae: Capulinia)

Nomenclatural History

• Capulinia jaboticabae Ihering 1898: 188. Type data: BRAZIL: on Eugenia jaboticaba. 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 one box of dry material marked "cotype."

Common Names

Ecological Associates

Hosts:

Families: 1 | Genera: 1

Geographic Distribution

Keys

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

Remarks

• Systematics: urn:Isid:zoobank.org:act:C177FB93-BBE7-446C-AA57-54524AD0337E Slide-mounted adult female with: antennae 4- or 5-segmented; first 2 pairs of legs completely absent, without sclerotized areas; last pair of legs weakly segmented, without a claw; last pair of legs removed from body margin (Hempel, 1900). Capulinia jaboticabae is very similar morphologically to C. linarosea, but has smaller legs, generally shorter antennae, shorter and less robust setae, even thoug some specimens of C. jaboticabae have the same body size. Also, the larger (wider) of two kinds of microducts has a squarish distal end on c. jaboticabae compared with a narrower asymmetrical end on C. linarosae. (Kondo, Gullan & Cook, 2016)
• Structure: Adult female is transparent when in KOH. Body is oval with distinct segments. Adult male is oval. Eggs are elliptical (Hempel, 1898).
• Economic Importance: Considered to be a pest of guava in Venezuela (Camacho Molina et al. 2002).
• General Remarks: Described and illustrated in detail by Hempel (1898).

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