Valid Names Results

Coccidella advena Schneider & LaPolla, 2024 (Rhizoecidae: Coccidella)

Nomenclatural History

• Coccidella advena Schneider & LaPolla 2024: 126. Type data: PERU: Madre de Dios, Las Cruces, Manu Paradise Lodge (‑13.0548, ‑71.5440), from Acropyga manuense nest behind lodge, in soil around small rotting branches, 5/31/2019, by J.S. LaPolla and S.A. Schneider. Holotype, female, by original designation Type depository: Washington: United States National Entomological Collection, U.S. National Museum of Natural History, District of Columbia, USA; accepted valid name Notes: Paratypes. PERU, all with same data as holotype: 1 adult ♀, USNM (nest ID PER01-02; prep S0401D); 1 adult ♀, USNM (nest ID PER01-02); 1 adult ♀ in poor condition, USNM Illustr.

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Ecological Associates

Geographic Distribution

Keys

• SchneiLa2024: pp.128 ( Adult (F) ) [addition to key by Kaydan et al. 2018]

Remarks

• Systematics: This species is placed in the genus Coccidella because it possesses characteristic clusters of specialized trilocular pores on the ventral surface of the abdominal segments. Coccidella advena is similar in appearance to C. boliviana Konczné Benedicty & Kozár but differs from it by having (character states of C. boliviana are given in parentheses): no multilocular disc-pores on the thorax (present); enlarged trilocular pores absent on the head (present); and with a ventral submedial pair of tritubular cerores on VI (absent). In a prior publication, C. advena was referred to as Coccidella near boliviana (Schneider et al. 2022).
• Structure: Body of living adult female white to cream-colored, dusted in powdery white wax. (Schneider & LaPolla, 2024) Mounted female body elongate oval and membranous, 0.92–1.28 mm long, 0.46– 0.75 mm wide at widest point near abdominal segment I. Eyes present on head margin. Antennae geniculate, each 5 segmented, situated ventrally on submargin of head; overall length 200–202 μm. Anal lobes indicated by slight projections at posterior end on either side of anal opening, each lobe bearing 3 distinctly enlarged setae, each about 50 μm long when intact but several broken or missing in type series
• Biology: The type series was collected with a nest of Agropyga manuense but was ignored by the worker ants during a period of observation so the species is presumed to have been living freely in the vicinity of the ant colony
• General Remarks: Detailed description and illustration in Schneider & LaPolla, 2024.

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