Valid Names Results

Tachardiella artocarpi (Hempel, 1921) (Tachardiidae (= Kerriidae): Tachardiella)

Nomenclatural History

• Tachardia artocarpi Hempel 1921: 145. Type data: BRAZIL: Rio de Janeiro, on twigs of "jaqueira"=jack-fruit Artocarpus heterophyllus, "cajueiro"= cashew Anacardium occidentale and Terminalia catappa.. Syntypes, female, Type depository: Sao Paulo: Museu de Zoologia, Universidade de Sao Paulo, Brazil; accepted valid name Illustr.
• Tachardiella artocarpi (Hempel, 1921); Chamberlin 1923: 194. change of combination

Common Names

Ecological Associates

Hosts:

Families: 3 | Genera: 3

Geographic Distribution

Keys

• KondoGu2011: pp.347-350 ( Adult (F) ) [Key Based on Adult Females to Separate Species of the Family Kerriidae Known to Occur in the New World]

Remarks

• Structure: The resin of the adult female has a globular form, with a pointed elevation on mid dorsum, with dilated margins and with many shallow sulci at the base. The resin is reddish-brown in color, slightly yellowish, darker towards the margins, and red in young individuals. Young individuals star-shaped, with an elevation on dorsum, with medium-sized specimens of a pyramid form. The surface of the resin is rough, but shiny, very hard with a tendency to crack, when dissolved in alcohol, resin changing to an orange yellow color. Without the resin, the adult female is orange yellow in color, with the two brachial plates of a black color. It has three lobes on each side, at the margin, one on mid-dorsum, plus one at the posterior end of the dorsum, on which the dorsal spine is located. The anal tubercle is well developed, dark, placed in almost a vertical direction. The two brachial plates are conical in shape, with the height being same as the diameter of the base. Next to these brachial there are two large spiracles, and next to the antennae there are two more small spiracles. (Kondo & Gullan, 2011 (from Hempel, 1921))
• General Remarks: Good description of the adult female given by Hempel (1921).

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