Icerya pulchra (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 : 93

publication ID

https://doi.org/ 10.11646/zootaxa.1803.1.1

DOI

https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.5126328

persistent identifier

https://treatment.plazi.org/id/304C87CD-FF9A-FF82-FF2B-B706FD90C2EA

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Felipe

scientific name

Icerya pulchra (Leonardi)
status

 

Icerya pulchra (Leonardi) View in CoL

Palaeococcus pulcher Leonardi, 1907: 1 .

Icerya pulcher (Leonardi) View in CoL ; Vayssière (1926: 319) [not Morrison (1928: 227), as in Ben-Dov (2005: 206)].

Icerya pulchra (Leonardi) View in CoL ; Lindinger (1932: 197).

Diagnosis (based on Morrison, 1921 and Rao, 1951b). Adult female 6–7 mm long, 3–4 mm wide. Body brown to dark brown, covered in white waxy secretion that appears in groups on dorsal surface. Waxy tassels project from margin, longest at posterior end and tapering to cover dorsal side of fluffy white ovisac. Slidemounted adult female oval, broadest across abdomen. Antennae 9 to 11 segmented. Legs slender, as for tribe. Hair-like setae scattered across all segments, longest setae forming clusters around abdominal margins. Opencentre pores absent. Simple multilocular pores, each with trilocular (rarely bilocular) centre and 6–8 outer loculi, scattered on dorsal surface. Simple multilocular pores, each with 6-lobed centre and 5–7 outer loculi, scattered near margin. Ovisac band made of simple multilocular pores of two types: (i) larger pores with quadrilocular or quinquelocular centre, and (ii) smaller pores with trilocular centre and 3 outer loculi. Simple multilocular pores on venter, each pore with bilocular centre and 4 outer loculi. Cicatrices round to elliptical, numbering 3, central cicatrix largest. Abdominal spiracles in 3 pairs. Anal tube and anal opening as for genus; anal opening surrounded by long, hair-like setae.

Type data. INDONESIA: Java, ex Ilex leaves .

Type material. Syntypes: ♀, ♂, 1 st -instar nymph ( IFSP) .

Taxonomic notes. We were unable to examine type material of this species. Refer to I. pulchra group for a discussion of similar species.

Kingdom

Animalia

Phylum

Arthropoda

Class

Insecta

Order

Hemiptera

Family

Margarodidae

Genus

Icerya

Loc

Icerya pulchra (Leonardi)

Unruh, Corinne M. & Gullan, Penny J. 2008
2008
Loc

Icerya pulchra (Leonardi)

Lindinger, L. 1932: 197
1932
Loc

Icerya pulcher (Leonardi)

Ben-Dov, Y. 2005: 206
Morrison, H. 1928: 227
Vayssiere, P. 1926: 319
1926
Loc

Palaeococcus pulcher

Leonardi, G. 1907: 1
1907
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