Valid Names Results

Carpochloroides viridis Cockerell, 1899 (Eriococcidae: Carpochloroides)

Nomenclatural History

• Carpochloroides viridis Cockerell 1899: 12-13. Type data: BRAZIL: Sao Paulo, Campinas, on Eugenia sp., ?/09/1898, by F. Noack. Syntypes, female, Type depository: London: The Natural History Museum, England, UK; Sao Paulo: Instituto Biologico de Sao Paulo, Brazil; Washington: United States National Entomological Collection, U.S. National Museum of Natural History, District of Columbia, USA; accepted valid name

Common Names

Ecological Associates

Hosts:

Families: 1 | Genera: 3

Geographic Distribution

Keys

• Hodgso2020: pp.73 ( Adult (M) ) [some “Gondwanan” Eriococcidae]

Remarks

• Systematics: Slide-mounted adult female with: antennae reduced to unsegmented tubercles; legs absent; anal ring absent; with pores near spiracles; small setae; tubular ducts absent (Ferris, 1957b). Slide-mounted first instar embryo with: antennae 6-segmented; body margin with longitudinal line of slender setae; anal ring with 6 setae (Ferris, 1957b). The adult male of C. viridis can be separated from the other known male eriococcids from the Neotropics in having 1) 10 segmented antennae, with fleshy setae clearly longer than width of antennal segments, 2) very short penial sheath, 3) hair-like and fleshy setae all long, rather similar and hard to separate; 4) tarsi all 1 segmented; and 5) dorsal abdominal setae more abundant than ventral abdominal setae. (Hodgson & Miller, 2010) The only other adult male eriococcid in the Gondwanan-group from South America that has glandular pouches and a short stout penial sheath is that of Stibococcus cerinus Miller & González but the male of C. viridis has 1-segmented tarsi whereas S. cerinus has 2-segmented tarsi. (Hodgson, 2020)
• Structure: Adult female becomes transparent, but still green after being boiled. First instar fusiform, not very elongate. Male sac is white, elongate, loosely woven. Adult male is brownish yellow, wings very large. Adult female is green and clear, resembles the fruit of Eugenia (Cockerell, 1899).
• General Remarks: Most detailed description by Cockerell (1899); a description also is given by Ferris (1957b) under the "Notes" section of the genus. Detailed illustrations of adult female, adult male and first instar nymph in Hodgson & Miller, 2010.

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