Valid Names Results

Hemiberlesia andradae Okusu & Normark, 2014 (Diaspididae: Hemiberlesia)

Nomenclatural History

• Hemiberlesia andradae Okusu & Normark 2014: 42-44. Type data: PANAMA: Colon, Parque Nacional San Lorenzo, on Carapa guianensis, 8/24/2010, by G.E. Morse & B.B. Normark. Holotype, female, Type depository: Amherst: University of Massachusetts Entomology Collection; accepted valid name

Common Names

Ecological Associates

Hosts:

Families: 3 | Genera: 3

Geographic Distribution

Keys

• WeiScNo2021: pp.17-23 ( Adult (F) ) [Aspidiotini from Panama]
• NormarMoKr2014: pp.46-47 ( Adult (F) ) [Modifications to Ferris's 1942 key to the species of North American Hemiberlesia to include both South American and North American species]

Remarks

• Systematics: Slide-mounted adult female (Fig. 6), broadly ovate, broadest at mesothorax, with margin of thoracic and prepygidial abdominal segments convex laterally and indented between segments;With three pairs of pygidial lobes; L1 large and subsemicircular; L2 and L3 hyaline, much narrower than L1, lanceolate; with a row of three distinctive, trifurcate plates anterior to L3 and a row of protruding macroduct oriÞces anterior to the seta marking segment V; paraphyses present; perivulvar pores absent; anal opening large; cephalothorax moderately sclerotized at maturity. (Normark, et al., 2014) Phylogenetic analyses of three different loci placed this species within the genus Hemiberlesia. H. andradae is most similar to Hemiberlesia diffinis (Newstead) and Hemiberlesia neodiffinis Miller and Davidson, with which it shares the following characters: a row of three distinctive, trifurcate plates anterior to L3; a row of protruding macroduct orifices anterior to the seta marking segment V; no perivulvar pores; cephalothorax moderately sclerotized at maturity; large, rounded L1 and smaller L2 and L3; moderately large fringed plates in the first and second spaces; and the paraphysis- like sclerotization of duct furrows in the first and second spaces. H. andradae differs from H. diffinis and H. neodiffinis in possessing hyaline and lanceolate L2 and L3; larger, subsemicircular L1 without notches; and more abundant microducts across the dorsum and venter of the whole prosoma. H. andradae also resembles four other Hemiberlesia species that share all of the characters that unite H. andradae, H. diffinis, and H. neodiffinis, except for the distinctive plates anterior to L3: H. flabelata Ferris, rev. comb., H. ignobilis Ferris, H. cupressi (Cockerell), and H. corporifusca (Chiesa Molinari), rev. comb. (Normark, et al., 2014)
• Structure: Scale cover highly convex. Color not recorded in life, but whitish-transparent in ethanol and probably white in life, though mostly appearing dirty brown because of a layer of scurfy material from the surface of the host. (Normark, et al., 2014)
• Biology: H. andradae is from a single, very dense infestation forming a crust on a developing inßorescence of the host. On the surface of the infestation, all of the scale insects were dead and dried out. Underneath this layer of dead, dried scale insects were several more layers of dead individuals. Beneath these, next to the surface of the host, were a few layers of live individuals. They seemed to all be healthy and not parasitized. No evidence of fungal infection was found, but several different types of holometabolous insect larvae were present, which appear to represent predaceous beetles and cecidomyiid flies. (Normark, et al., 2014)
• General Remarks: Detailed description and illustration in Normark, et al., 2014.

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