Valid Names Results

Pseudococcus espeletiae Williams & Granara de Willink, 1992 (Pseudococcidae: Pseudococcus)

Nomenclatural History

• Pseudococcus espeletiae Williams & Granara de Willink 1992: 443. Type data: COLOMBIA: Paramo of Monserrate, 3 km E. Bogota, on Espeletia grandiflora. Holotype, female, Type depository: Washington: United States National Entomological Collection, U.S. National Museum of Natural History, District of Columbia, USA; accepted valid name Illustr.
• Pseudococcus espeletia Williams & Granara de Willink, 1992; Granara de Willink & González 2018: 4. misspelling of species epithet

Common Names

Ecological Associates

Hosts:

Families: 1 | Genera: 1

Geographic Distribution

Keys

• GranarGo2018: pp.10-14 ( Adult (F) ) [Central & South American Pseudococcus]
• VonEllWa2016: pp.74-76 ( Adult (F) ) [Pseudococcus species present in the New World]
• WilliaGr1992: pp.426 ( Adult (F) ) [Central and South America]

Remarks

• Structure: Translucent pores on coxa, femur and tibia; discoidal pores close to absent eyes; cerari reduced to 13 or 14 pairs, the last three ceraris on the sclerosed surface with 3-12 setae; numerous tubular canals with oral rims associated with a setae and discoidal pores form groups close to the cerari and in lateral zone of all the segments of the body on the dorsum; on venter, numerous submarginal cerari along the body; scant multilocular pores on segmentk VI. (Granara de Willink & González, 2018)
• General Remarks: Good description and illustration of the adult female given by Williams & Granara de Willink (1992).

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