Valid Names Results

Hemilecanium mangiferae Kondo & Williams, 2005 (Coccidae: Hemilecanium)

Nomenclatural History

• Hemilecanium mangiferae Kondo & Williams 2005: 30. Type data: THAILAND: Sukhotai Province, Sawankhalok, on Mangifera indica; collected F. Kawamura, 26.iv.1995.. Holotype, female, Type depository: Washington: United States National Entomological Collection, U.S. National Museum of Natural History, District of Columbia, USA; accepted valid name Illustr.

Common Names

• Mango giant soft scale KondoJo2022
• Escama blanda gigante del mango KondoJo2022

Ecological Associates

Hosts:

Families: 1 | Genera: 1

Associates:

Families: 1 | Genera: 1

Geographic Distribution

Keys

• JoshiKo2020: pp.427 ( Adult (F) ) [species of Hemilecanium in the Oriental Region]
• KondoHo2013: pp.509-510 ( Adult (F) ) [Key to adult females of Hemilecanium Newstead]
• KondoHo2013: pp.512 ( First instar ) [Key to known first-instars of Hemilecanium Newstead]
• KondoHa2008: pp.195-187 ( Adult (F) ) [Species of Hemilecanium]
• KondoWi2005: pp.29-30 ( ) [Species of Hemilecanium]

Remarks

• Systematics: The adult female of H. mangiferae can be separated from other species in the genus by having the following combination of features: (i) dorsum with 2 pairs of cribriform plates; (ii) dorsal tubercles without satellite ducts, present submarginally only, totalling 18–24 around body; (iii) preopercular pores hard to detect due to heavily sclerotization, probably totalling more than 70, in a single broad area anterior to anal plates; (iv) stigmatic spines not differentiated from marginal setae; (v) marginal setae conical, sharply spinose, totalling 82–147 on each side between anterior and posterior stigmatic clefts; (vi) ventral tubular ducts in a broad submarginal band; (vii) multilocular pores, each with 7–11 (mainly 10) loculi, abundant around perivulvar region, extending anteriorly onto median areas of venter near leg bases and anterior spiracles, also with a few anterior to antennae; (viii) antennae each 8- or 9-segmented; (ix) dorsal tubular ducts absent; and (x) a single, large dorsal sclerotization present around anal plates. (Kondo & Joshi, 2022)
• Structure: Adult female subcircular, slightly convex, sometimes asymmetrical when overcrowded; body large, 8–15 mm at widest point. Young adult females grey to brown, with a fringe of marginal waxy filaments; older specimens darker, often with marginal waxy filaments broken off. Central area of dorsum of mature adults with 6 clumps of waxy secretions and often with 4 white powdery spots. Characteristics of slide-mounted adult female. Body circular to subcircular, 5–12 mm long, 3.8–11.0 mm wide. Stigmatic clefts very shallow or absent; anal cleft about 1/3 of body length, fused. (Kondo & Joshi, 2022)
• Economic Importance: Reported to cause damage to mango trees in Thailand (Kondo & Williams, 2005).
• General Remarks: Description and illustration of adult female and first instar nymph by Kondo& Williams (2005).

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