Crypticerya zeteki (Cockerell)

Unruh, Corinne M. & Gullan, Penny J., 2008, Identification guide to species in the scale insect tribe Iceryini (Coccoidea: Monophlebidae), Zootaxa 1803 (1), pp. 1-106 : 46-47

Crypticerya zeteki (Cockerell)

Icerya zeteki Cockerell, 1914b: 148 . Incorrectly synonymized with I. brasiliensis by Ben-Dov (2005: 193).

Crypticerya zeteki (Cockerell) ; Unruh & Gullan (2008: 28) .

Unmounted material. Adult female densely covered with white-yellow cottony tufts; large tufts present on middorsum with lateral depression; tufts also forming submarginal and marginal longitudinal rows; horn-like, truncate waxy projection present at anterior and posterior end, longer at posterior end and projecting over ovisac. Ovisac 3.0– 3.5 mm long, striated and suffused with pink (adapted from Cockerell, 1914b).

Slide-mounted material. Adult female oval (lectotype 5.4 mm long, 4.0 mm wide). Antennae 11 segmented. Eyes, mouthparts and legs as for tribe. Thoracic spiracles as for genus. Hair-like setae scattered across all segments, longest marginally, between antennae and at abdominal apex. Flagellate setae distributed as for genus. Simple multilocular pores, each 10–12 µm in diameter, with trilocular (rarely quadrilocular) centre and 6–8 outer loculi, covering dorsal surface, densest around submargin and forming a medial longitudinal row on head and thorax. Simple multilocular pores, each 9–10 µm in diameter, with trilocular (appearing triangular), quadrilocular (appearing cruciform) or quinquelocular (appearing star-shaped) centre and 10–12 outer loculi, present in segmental clusters of 6–14 on submedial dorsal head and thorax and submarginal ventral head and thorax. Simple multilocular pores, each 8–9 µm in diameter, with trilocular (appearing triangular), quadrilocular (appearing cruciform) or quinquelocular (appearing star-shaped) centre and 3–5 outer loculi, scattered on ventromedial head and thorax. Ovisac band made of two types of simple multilocular pores: (i) slightly larger pores forming inner band 6–8 pores wide, each pore 10–12 µm in diameter, with trilocular to quadrilocular centre and 6–8 outer loculi, and (ii) smaller pores (appearing bluish when stained) forming outer band 3 or 4 pores wide, each pore 9–10 µm in diameter, with triangular, cruciform or starshaped centre and 10–12 outer loculi. Simple multilocular pores, each 8–9 µm in diameter, with bilocular centre and 4–6 outer loculi, scattered in transverse rows on ventromedial abdomen. Vulvar opening as for genus. Cicatrices circular to oval, numbering 5. Abdominal spiracles as for genus. Anal ring and anal opening as for genus, surrounded by long, hair-like setae.

Type data. PANAMA: Panama Canal Zone, ex stems of an undetermined plant, having dark red colour externally and much white pith within (J. Zetek) .

Type material. Lectotype here designated: ad ♀, “ Icerya Type material/ zeteki Ckll. /From undetermined/ host/ Panama Canal Zone/ J. Zetek, coll./From Ckll. 1918/Entomological Laboratory/Stanford University/ G.F.F.” ( BME) . Paralectotypes: ad ♀, 2 ad ♀♀ (latter ♀♀ on one slide), 3 1 st -instar nymphs (one slide) (same data as lectotype) ( BME) ; 2 ad ♀♀, " Icerya zeteki Ckll. / On undetermined plant./ Panama Canal Zone. / J. Zetek, col./ Part of type material, received/from Ckll. 1919" barcode 74 24 107432 (dry material) ( BME) ; dry material ( USNM); body parts of 3 ♀♀ and 3 embryos (all on one slide) ( UCEC) ; dry material [many on paper strip], “ Panama Canal Zone /9866/ Icerya zeteki Ckll. ” ( NYSM) .

Other material examined. PANAMA: ad ♀, “ Icerya / zeteki Ckll. /Possibly Type; acc. to Ckll/On a fine foliage plant/Ancon, Canal Zone/Zetek + Bethel, Coll./ March 7, 1913 /Rec’d thru Cockerell” ( USNM) .

Taxonomic notes. Refer to the C. montserratensis group for a discussion of similar species.

‘The Scale’ published in March, 2001 lists material at NYSM. A slide at USNM labelled “Possibly Type ” is not type material because the collectors listed on the slide are incorrect.

The on-line list of type material housed at UCEC has misspelled Icerya zeteki as Icerya zetski ( UCEC, 2003) .