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Crypticerya brasiliensis (Hempel, 1900) (Monophlebidae: Crypticerya)

Nomenclatural History

• Icerya brasiliensis Hempel 1900a: 370. Type data: BRAZIL: Sao Paulo State, Mandado do Iguape, on Codiaeum sp., Ypiranga on Ficus, Rosa and other plants.. Syntypes, female, Type depository: Sao Paulo: Museu de Zoologia, Universidade de Sao Paulo, Brazil; accepted valid name Illustr.
• Icerya braziliensis Hempel, 1900; Hempel 1912: 18. misspelling of species epithet
• Crypticerya brasiliensis (Hempel, 1900); Unruh & Gullan 2008: 26. change of combination
• Icerya brasiliensis Hempel, 1900; Gavrilov-Zimin 2018: 176. revived combination (previously published) Notes: Gavrilov-Zimin rejected the genetic basis for separation of genera. Based on his morphological definition of genera, he reassigned several species within this family.

Common Names

• Brazilian fluted scale KondoGu2022a
• Cochinilla acanalada de Brasil KondoGu2022a

Ecological Associates

Hosts:

Families: 8 | Genera: 10

Foes:

Families: 1 | Genera: 1

Associates:

Families: 1 | Genera: 1

Geographic Distribution

Keys

• Gavril2018: pp.179-182 ( Adult (F) ) [Species of Icerya] Key as: Icerya brasiliensis
• KondoGuPe2016: pp.6 ( Adult (F) ) [iceryine species in Colombia]
• KondoGuRa2012: pp.7-Jun ( Adult (F) ) [Key to the adult females of South American iceryine species (Replacement for erroneous key in Kondo & Unruh (2009))]
• KondoUn2009: pp.94-95 ( Adult (F) ) [Crypticerya species of South America]
• UnruhGu2008b: pp.25-26 ( Adult (F) ) [Species of Crypticerya]
• Morris1928: pp.208-211 ( Adult (F) ) [Species of Icerya]

Remarks

• Systematics: Icerya zeteki was listed as a synonym of Icerya brasiliensis in the catalogue of Margarodidae (Ben-Dov, 2005: 193), and the synonymy was attributed to Vayssiere (1929). Later, Unruh & Gullan (2008: 24-25) discussed this synonymy and concluded as follows: In fact, Vayssiere redescribed I. Zeteki and considered synonymizing the two species, but did not do so because he wanted to examine more material (Vayssie` re, 1929: 85). He (Vayssiere) discussed comments made by Cockerell about the external similarity of I. Zeteki and I. Brasiliensis (Cockerell, 1914b). Vayssiere's description of I. zeteki was based on non-type material and his redescription of I. Brasiliensis was based on material from Green's collection that derived from Hempel's collection (Vayssiere, 1926: 321). Unruh & Gullan (2008) transferred Icerya zeteki and Icerya brasiliensis to Crypticerya, treated them as distinct species, and indicated that adult females of C. zeteki and C. brasiliensis differ by the number of ventral cicatrices (seven and three, respectively), yet Vayssiere did not discuss these structures in either of his descriptions.
• Structure: Adult female enclosed in a spherical test about 6-8 mm in diameter, dark brown, with a rough external surface and an internal wall covered by a coating of white wax secretion, and with an orifice about 1 mm in diameter in position of female’s anal opening. Third-instar (preadult) female living within a test, as described above for adult female. Derm of live preadult female light yellow according to Hempel (1900), who mistakenly described the third-instar female as the adult.(Foldi & Gullan, 2014)
• Economic Importance: This species is often found congregating in large numbers on the underneath of branches and twigs of its host, and has been reported as causing the dieback of numerous shade trees in São Paulo, Brazil (Hempel, 1900). Recently, in the Department of Boyacá in Colombia, C. brasiliensis was reported as causing great damage to many types of shrubs and guava trees (Kondo et al., 2016).
• General Remarks: Description and illustration of adult female by Hempel (1900a), Cockerell (1914) and by Vayssiere (1926).

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