Crypticerya flava (Hempel)

Unruh, Corinne M. & Gullan, Penny J., 2008, Identification guide to species in the scale insect tribe Iceryini (Coccoidea: Monophlebidae), Zootaxa 1803 (1), pp. 1-106 : 29-30

Crypticerya flava (Hempel)

Icerya flava Hempel, 1920: 334 .

Crypticerya flava (Hempel) ; Unruh & Gullan (2008: 26) .

Unmounted material. Adult female red, covered in yellow wax forming medial row with one large tuft and two smaller tufts, submarginal rows of smaller tufts and marginal row of thick tufts; one large tuft at each end of body; ovisac yellow and striated, inner ovisac smooth and white (adapted from Hempel, 1920).

Slide-mounted material. Adult female elongate to oval, 5.6 mm long, 4.0 mm wide. Antennae 11 segmented. Eyes, mouthparts and legs as for tribe. Thoracic spiracles as for genus; derm at atrial opening with 4– 9 simple multilocular pores with bilocular or trilocular centre and 6–10 outer loculi. Hair-like setae distributed as for genus; dense on ventral head and thorax and longest around margin and between antennae. Flagellate setae distributed as for genus. Simple multilocular pores, each 12–13 µm in diameter, with trilocular (sometimes bilocular or quadrilocular) centre and 6–9 outer loculi, scattered on dorsal surface and marginal to submarginal venter. Simple multilocular pores, each 9–10 µm in diameter, with trilocular (appearing triangular), quadrilocular (appearing cruciform) or quinquelocular (appearing star-shaped) centre and 10–12 outer loculi, present in segmental clusters of 6–14 on submarginal ventral head and thorax. Ovisac band made of simple multilocular pores of two types: (i) pores forming inner ovisac band 7 or 8 pores wide, each pore 12–13 µm in diameter, with trilocular centre and 6–9 outer loculi, and (ii) smaller pores (appearing bluish when stained) forming outer band 1 or 2 pores wide, each pore 9–10 µm in diameter, with triangular, cruciform or starshaped centre and 10–12 outer loculi. Simple multilocular pores, each 10–11 µm in diameter, with quinquelocular (sometimes trilocular or quadrilocular) centre and 4–6 outer loculi, scattered on ventromedial to submedial head and thorax. Simple multilocular pores, similar to vulvar pores, each 11–12 µm in diameter, with bilocular centre and 6–10 outer loculi, scattered across ventromedial to submedial abdomen. Vulvar opening as for genus; surrounded by typical multilocular pores, each 10–12 µm in diameter, with bilocular or trilocular centre and 8–10 outer loculi. Cicatrices oval to pyriform, numbering 3, subequal in size. Abdominal spiracles as for genus. Anal ring as for genus; anal opening as for genus, surrounded by typical multilocular pores, each 10–11 µm in diameter, with bilocular centre and 8–10 outer loculi.

Type data. BRAZIL: São Paulo, Cantareira near São Paulo, ex bark of indigenous trees 'cambara preta' [=black Gochnatia ] and 'sucara' .

Type material. Syntypes: ad ♀♀, 1 st -instar nymphs, eggs ( MZSP) (not examined) .

Material examined. ad ♀, “ Icerya /flava/Hempel” ( MZSP) .

Taxonomic notes. Refer to the C. montserratensis group for a discussion of similar species.

Hempel described first-instar nymphs and eggs of this species, but we were unable to examine this material, which presumably is located at MZSP. We do not consider the material we examined from MZSP to be type material because there is not enough information provided on the slide label to relate it to the type series.