Valid Names Results

Capulinia sallei Signoret, 1875 (Eriococcidae: Capulinia)

Nomenclatural History

• Capulinia sallei Signoret 1875b: 28-29. Type data: MEXICO: on "Capulino". Syntypes, female, Type depository: Vienna: Naturhistorisches Museum Wien, Austria; accepted valid name Notes: Matile-Ferrero & Danzig visited the Naturhistorisches Museum, Vienna in June of 1997 and found dry type material as follows: two samples of stems, each with two labels: Mexico/sallei/ det. Signoret. Two vials containing dry material, each with two labels: Mexico/sallei/det. Signoret. Vial number one contains wax and vial number two contains five dried female specimens.

Common Names

Ecological Associates

Hosts:

Families: 2 | Genera: 2

Geographic Distribution

Keys

• Hodgso2020: pp.73 ( Adult (M) ) [some “Gondwanan” Eriococcidae]
• KondoGuCo2016: pp.478-479 ( Adult (F) First instar ) [Capulinia species]

Remarks

• Systematics: Slide-mounted adult female with: apex of body bearing vulva which is surrounded by a broad band of tubular ducts; anal ring with 1 pair of setae; body covered with tubular ducts; antennae 1-segmented; legs in form of sclerotized area, except hind pair forming long process that is slightly removed from apex of body; hind leg terminating in a claw (Ferris, 1955a & Hempel, 1900). Slide-mounted first instar with 2 longitudinal lines of enlarged setae on each side of body; antennae 6-segmented; without other pores or ducts (Ferris, 1955a). The original description by Signoret included small, whole-body drawings of the adult female and firs-instar nymph. The type species was labeled "Mexico/sallei/det.Signoret." Subsequent descriptions, Ferris (1955), and Hodgson & Miller (2010) were based on material from Cuba. these descriptions differ in body and leg size and leg differentiation. Kondo, Gullan and Cook (2016) suspect that the Cuban specimens may represent another new species. The adult male of C. sallei is superficially rather similar to that of Eriogallococcus isaias but the former has: (i) 10-segmented antennae whereas E. isaias has only 5-segmented antennae and (ii) C. sallei has 2-segmented tarsi whereas E. isaias has only 1-segmented tarsi. (Hodgson, 2020)
• Structure: Adult female is almost spherical with posterior extremity slightly produced. This slight process bears the vulva, and its base bears a relatively broad band of tubular ducts (Ferris, 1955a). In the field the species occurs on the leaves of its host and forms an extraordinarily long ovisac which reaches 2 mm in length and has the appearance of a piece of white cotton (Ferris, 1955a).
• Biology: The host of the type specimens of C. sallei is almost certainly an Eugenia species. (Kondo, et al., 2016)
• General Remarks: Described and illustrated by Ferris (1955a). Adult male described and illustrated by Hodgson & Miller, 2010.

Illustrations

Citations