Valid Names Results

Crypticerya pimentae (Newstead, 1917) (Monophlebidae: Crypticerya)

Llaveia primitiva pimentae Newstead 1917a: 2. Type data: JAMAICA: on 'pimento' (=Pimenta officinalis, 1916, collected A.H. Ritchie.. Syntypes, female, Type depository: London: The Natural History Museum, England, UK; accepted valid name
Crypticerya primitiva pimentae (Newstead, 1917); Vayssière 1926: 316. change of combination
Crypticerya pimentae (Newstead, 1917); Morrison 1928: 226. change in status (level)

Families: 1 | Genera: 1

Countries: 1

Gavril2018: pp.178 ( Adult (F) ) [Species of Crypticerya]
KondoGuPo2012: pp.7-Jun ( Adult (F) ) [Key to the adult females of South American iceryine species (Replacement for erroneous key in Kondo & Unruh (2009))]
KondoUn2009: pp.94-95 ( Adult (F) ) [Crypticerya species of South America]
UnruhGu2008b: pp.25-26 ( Adult (F) ) [Species of Crypticerya]

Systematics: Unruh & Gullan (2008b) noted that Crypticerya pimentae and C. abrahami and C. rosae, differ from all other species of Crypticerya because the adult females form neither an ovisac nor a marsupium. Adult females typically do not have elaborate waxy secretion on the dorsal surface and the derm is often very dark in colour and becomes very convex and sclerotized with age. These species are morphologically identical, but have a wide geographic range and are not genetically identical (Unruh & Gullan, 2008).