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Colobopyga browni Beardsley, 1963 (Halimococcidae: Colobopyga)

Colobopyga browni Beardsley 1963: 60. Type data: UNITED STATES: Hawaii, Oahu, Koolau Mountains, Poamoho Trail summit, on Pritchardia rockiana Beccari, 16/04/1960, by S.W. Brown & J. W. Beardsley. Holotype, female, by original designation Type depository: Honolulu: Bernice P. Bishop Museum, Department of Entomology Collection, Hawaii, USA; accepted valid name Notes: 2 paratypes also in USNM. Illustr.

Families: 1 | Genera: 1

Pritchardia | Beards1963 PerezGKo1992
Pritchardia martii | Beards1963 Nakaha1981a | (= Pritchardia kahanae)(= Pritchardia martiodes)(= Pritchardia rockiana)

Countries: 1

Systematics: This species is closely allied to C. pritchardiae (Stickney), but it is smaller, the second stage female has fewer tubular ducts and the portion of the derm clothed with small conical projections is less extensive. In C. pritchardiae these conical projections are present completely across the dorsum of the prepygidial abdominal segments, whereas in C. browni the middle part of the dorsum of these segments is free of projections. The operculum of P. pritchardiae does not possess the well defined weakly sclerotized unreticulate area along the anterior margin which is found in C. browni(Beardsley, 1963).
Structure: Beardsley (1963) states that the scales are reddish to yellowish brown in color and have a small deposit of whitish wax along the lateral margins.
Biology: This species was collected at an altitude of 660m. It was found on the lower surface of the leaf blade and was clothed in a thick wooly tomentum which partially or completely hid the scales (Beardsley, 1963). Also, "there appears to be a habitat separation between this species and the related C. pritchardiae. C. browni was found only on the leaves, whereas C. pritchardiae was confined to the fruiting branches, the fruit and associated bracts"(Beardsley, 1963).