Cryptostigma Ferris, 1922

Kondo, Takumasa, 2010, Taxonomic revision of the myrmecophilous, meliponiphilous and rhizophilous soft scale genus Cryptostigma Ferris (Hemiptera: Coccoidea: Coccidae) 2709, Zootaxa 2709, pp. 1-72 : 7-8

publication ID

1175­5334

publication LSID

lsid:zoobank.org:pub:EEB136EF-22C6-44AD-8FB0-0541153DC28C

DOI

https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.5295208

persistent identifier

https://treatment.plazi.org/id/696387C5-EC53-C474-FF47-2365FA6366AF

treatment provided by

Felipe

scientific name

Cryptostigma Ferris
status

 

Key to separate the male and female instars of Cryptostigma Ferris View in CoL

1. Insects with wings or wing buds.......................................................................... Adult male, or male pupa or prepupa

- Insects without wings or wing buds.............................................................................................................................. 2

2. Legs and antennae long, well developed, showing no reduction of segments; legs clearly cursorial .......................... 3

- Legs and antennae short, greatly reduced; legs not cursorial .......................................................................................5

3. Each anal plate with a long apical seta, if apical seta broken, large setal socket of apical seta present on apex of each plate.................................................................................................................................................... first-instar nymph

- Each anal plate with neither a long apical seta nor with a large setal socket on apex of each plate ............................ 4

4. Dorsum with tubular ducts....................................................................................................second-instar nymph male

- Dorsum without tubular ducts............................................................................................second-instar nymph female 5. Vulva and multilocular disc-pores absent around vulva .................................................................. third-instar nymph

- Vulva present; multilocular disc-pores present in perivulvar region.......................................................... adult female

Kingdom

Animalia

Phylum

Arthropoda

Class

Insecta

Order

Hemiptera

Family

Coccidae

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