Crypticerya subandina (Leonardi)

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 : 42-43

Crypticerya subandina (Leonardi)

Icerya subandina Leonardi, 1911: 238 .

Crypticerya subandina (Leonardi) ; Unruh & Gullan (2008: 28) .

Unmounted material. Body of adult female red; antennae, legs and setae brown to black. Ovisac about 7 mm long, snow-white, very convex and constituted of many waxen strips; shape of ovisac resembles that of I. purchasi . Stripped of ovisac, body of adult female oval, widest across abdomen. Derm covered with setae of varying lengths; thick clusters of setae found around margin. (adapted from Leonardi, 1911).

Slide-mounted material. Adult female oval to round, 3.9–4.7 mm long, 3.8–4.0 mm wide, widest across abdomen. Antennae 9 to 11 segmented. Eyes, mouthparts and legs as for tribe. Thoracic spiracles as for genus; derm at atrial opening with 4–7 pores, each with bilocular or trilocular centre and 6–8 outer loculi. Short, robust hair-like setae very sparsely scattered across all surfaces. Flagellate setae distributed as for genus. Simple multilocular pores, each 10–12 µm in diameter, with trilocular (sometimes quadrilocular) centre and 6–8 outer loculi, covering dorsal surface, densest around submargin and forming a medial longitudinal row on head and thorax. 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 band 5–7 pores wide, each pore 11–12 µm in diameter, with trilocular centre and 6–8 outer loculi, and (ii) pores forming outer band, 1 or 2 pores wide, each pore 10–11 µm in diameter, with trilocular, quadrilocular (appearing cruciform) or quinquelocular (appearing starshaped) centre and 4–8 outer loculi and appearing slightly bluish when stained. Simple multilocular pores, similar to vulvar pores and appearing slightly bluish when stained, each 10–11 µm in diameter, with bilocular, trilocular or quadrilocular (appearing cruciform) centre and 4–8 outer loculi, scattered on ventromedial to submedial head and thorax; similar pores with bilocular or trilocular centre and 4–8 outer loculi, scattered across ventromedial to submedial abdomen. Vulvar opening as for genus; surrounded by typical multilocular pores with bilocular centre and 8–12 outer loculi. Cicatrices elongate to reniform, numbering 3, subequal in size. Abdominal spiracles as for genus. Anal tube and anal opening as for genus.

First-instar nymph as for genus except with three pairs of long, hair-like setae at abdominal apex.

Type data. ARGENTINA: Cachueta , ex Bulnesia retama .

Type material. Syntypes: ad ♀♀, 1 st -instar nymphs ( IFSP) .

Material examined. ad ♀, 6 1 st -instar nymphs, “ Icerya /subandina Leon./ On Bulnesia retama / Mendoza,/ Argentina /Jorgensen Coll./#8a” ( USNM) ; 3 ad ♀♀ (one slide), 2 ad ♀♀ (one slide), “ Icerya / purchasi Mask. /on subandina Leon./on/ Bulnesia retana/ Chile / Mendoza, Argentine [sic]/ Dr. Carlos S. Reed, coll./May/July 21 – 09/ J.G. Sanders. / J.F. Zimmer ” (3 ad ♀♀ at USNM, 2 ad ♀♀ at BME) .

Taxonomic notes. Refer to the C. montserratensis group for a discussion of similar species. The type location of this species is Cachueta, Argentina, which is located in the province of Mendoza. The slides we examined from the USNM and BME list Mendoza, Argentina, as the collection locality and were collected two years before Leonardi described C. subandina . However, these slides may not be syntypes and therefore we refrain from designating a lectotype from this series.