Valid Names Results

Chrysomphalus nepenthivorus Smith-Pardo, Evans & Dooley, 2012 (Diaspididae: Chrysomphalus)

Nomenclatural History

• Chrysomphalus nepenthivorus Smith-Pardo, Evans & Dooley 2012: 10-May. Type data: THAILAND: on Nepenthes hybrid, intercepted at USDA-PPZ Plant Inspection Stateion, 9/1/2011, by N. Pyle & A.H. Smith-Pardo. Holotype, female, by original designation Type depository: 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: 1

Geographic Distribution

Keys

• SmithPEvDo2012: pp.6-May ( Adult (F) ) [Key to the species of the genus Chrysomphalus based on adult females]

Remarks

• Systematics: This species is most similar to Chrysomphalus propsimus, which also has these characters, but differs by apparently being restricted to Nepenthes and by having 2 or 3 macroducts on the lateral margin of A3, 1 macroduct on the lateral margin of A2, and no macroducts on A1; whereas, C. propsimus is only known on palms and has 3, 2 and 1 macroducts on A1, A2 and A3, respectively. (Smith-Pardo. et al., 2012)
• Structure: Adult female non-pupillarial; scale cover reddish-brown, circular, more or less thick and with exuvium central. (Smith-Pardo, et al., 2012) Chrysomphalus nepenthivorus is characterized by having: perivulvar pores, the first two plates anterior to L3 with fringed apices, prepygidial segments without a cluster of 5 or more macroducts, the second and third pygidial furrows each with 12-20 ducts and L1 notched only on outer margin. (Smith-Pardo, et al., 2012)
• General Remarks: Detailed description and illustration in Smith-Pardo, et al., 2012.

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