Crypticerya colimensis (Cockerell)

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 : 28-29

Crypticerya colimensis (Cockerell)

Icerya colimensis Cockerell, 1902b: 81 .

Crypticerya colimensis (Cockerell) ; Unruh & Gullan (2008: 26) .

Unmounted material. Adult female plus ovisac about 10 mm long, ovisac 6 mm long, slightly striated, wax of inner ovisac light yellow; dorsal surface covered with wax secretion; margin with white short wax tassels (adapted from Cockerell, 1902b).

Slide-mounted material. Adult female elongate to oval (lectotype 5.2 mm long, 3.8 mm wide). Apex of head, including antennae and eyes, missing from lectotype. Mouthparts and legs as for tribe. Thoracic spiracles as for genus; derm at atrial opening with 6–8 simple multilocular pores each 9–10 µm in diameter with bilocular centre and 6–8 outer loculi. Hair-like setae distributed as for genus; longest setae found around margin; robust hair-like setae, similar to setae in ovisac band, in segmental clusters on dorsal head and thorax and marginal thorax and abdomen. Flagellate setae distributed as for genus. Simple multilocular pores, each 10– 12 µm in diameter, with bilocular or trilocular (sometimes quadrilocular) centre, scattered across dorsal surface and marginal to submarginal venter. Ovisac band present, formed by robust, slender hair-like setae, 75– 100 µm long with visible sockets and flattened bases, and multilocular pores of two types: (i) larger pores forming inner ovisac band 5–7 pores wide, each pore 10–11 µm in diameter, with trilocular (sometimes bilocular) centre and 6–8 outer loculi, and (ii) smaller pores, forming outer ovisac band 2–5 pores wide, each pore 8–10 µm in diameter, with bilocular or trilocular centre and 4–8 outer loculi, appearing slightly bluish when stained. Simple multilocular pores, each 9–10 µm in diameter, with bilocular or trilocular centre and 4–6 outer loculi, scattered on ventromedial to submedial thorax; similar pores each 8–9 µm in diameter with bilocular centre and 4 or 5 outer loculi, scattered on ventromedial to submedial abdomen. Vulvar opening as for genus, surrounded by typical multilocular pores 10–12 µm in diameter. Cicatrix round, 290 µm wide. Abdominal spiracles with atrium 30–33 µm wide. Anal ring and anal opening missing from lectotype.

Type data. MEXICO: Colima, Manzanillo , ex undetermined shrub, 18.vii.1902 (C.H.T. Townsend) .

Type material. Lectotype here designated: ad ♀, “ Icerya /colimensis/Ckll. TYPE/ Manzanillo,/ Colima Mex / July 18, 1902 /(Towns.)” ( USNM) . Paralectotypes: 2 1 st -instar nymphs (one slide), 1 embryo “Type/ Icerya / colimensis Ckll. /Manazillo,/ Colima, Mex./ C.H.T. Townsend, Coll./ July 18, 1902 ” ( USNM) ; ca. 28 embryos and eggs (one slide) “8706 [encircled]/ Icerya colimensis /Ckll TYPE/Manzanillo/in Colima /July 18./ (Towns.)/870.6 [encircled]” ( BME) ; dry material ( USNM).

Taxonomic notes. Crypticerya colimensis and C. palmeri are the only described Crypticerya species that possess a single cicatrix. These two species differ by the presence of clusters of robust hair-like setae on the dorsal surface of the adult female of C. colimensis that are absent from the derm of C. palmeri . These two species also differ by the shape of the base of the setae in the ovisac band: the setae of C. palmeri have slightly more rounded bases than the flattened setal bases of C. colimensis . Refer to the C. rileyi group for further discussion of similar species.

Cockerell (1902b) distinguished this species from C. palmeri by the shape of the antennae of the firstinstar nymph, but only a single embryo of C. colimensis was available for examination. Based on his original description, it appears that Cockerell did not examine slide-mounted material.