Crypticerya luederwaldti (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 : 33

publication ID	https://doi.org/ 10.11646/zootaxa.1803.1.1
DOI	https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.5126250
persistent identifier	https://treatment.plazi.org/id/304C87CD-FFE6-FFFE-FF2B-B76EFB96C364
treatment provided by	Felipe
scientific name	Crypticerya luederwaldti (Hempel)
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Treatment

Icerya luederwaldti Hempel, 1918: 197 View in CoL .

Crypticerya luederwaldti (Hempel) ; Unruh & Gullan (2008: 26) View Cited Treatment .

Diagnosis (adapted from Hempel, 1918). Adult female yellow, entirely covered with waxy secretion forming several tassels on dorsum around margin and one at anterior end and one very long tassel at posterior end; tassels may be irregularly arranged. Length of ovisac equal to length of adult female; ovisac striated, curving downward at apex. Antennae 10 or 11 segmented. Legs as for genus, digitules filiform. Derm covered with long setae and small multilocular pores.

Type data. BRAZIL: São Paulo, Santos, ex leaves of “salt loving plant” (H. Luederwaldt) .

Type material. Syntypes: ad ♀♀ ( SAPO) .

Taxonomic notes. We were unable to examine material of this species.