Valid Names Results

Colobopyga palmicola Williams & Watson, 1990 (Halimococcidae: Colobopyga)

Colobopyga palmicola Williams & Watson 1990: 212-214. Type data: NORFOLK ISLAND: 06/02/1980, on Howea forsteriana, by R. Paton. Holotype, female, by original designation Type depository: Canberra: Australian National Insect Collection, CSIRO Entomology, Australia; accepted valid name Notes: Paratypes also in BMNH. Illustr.

Families: 1 | Genera: 1

Countries: 1

Systematics: Williams & Watson (1990) state that Colobopyga palmicola is close to C. hedyscepes. "C. hedyscepes lacks the ventral quinquelocular pores on the prepygidial segments that are present in C. palmicola. The adult female of C. palmicola also differs from that of C. hedyscepes in possessing a sclerotized area just anterior to the anus. In the second instar of C. palmicola the pygidial margin posterior to the rim of the operculum is prolonged posteriorly, but the pygidial margin in C. hedyscepes is about the same width around the entire posterior margin of the operculum. Two other species, C. attaleae (Stickney) and C. washingtoniae Ferris, possess disc pores anterior to the pygidium in the adult female. The pores in these two species, however, are present on both the dorsum and the venter, whereas in C. palmicola they occur on the venter only.
General Remarks: Detailed description and illustration by Williams & Watson (1990).