Crypticerya zeteki (Cockerell)

Kondo, Takumasa, Gullan, Penny J., Peronti, Ana L. B. G., Ramos-Portilla, Andrea Amalia, Caballero, Alejandro & Villarreal-Pretelt, Nelson, 2016, First records of the iceryine scale insects Crypticerya brasiliensis (Hempel) and Crypticerya genistae (Hempel) (Hemiptera: Monophlebidae) for Colombia, Insecta Mundi 2016 (480), pp. 1-9 : 5-6

Crypticerya zeteki (Cockerell)

Icerya zeteki Cockerell 1914: 148 .

Crypticerya zeteki (Cockerell) ; Unruh and Gullan 2008a: 24. Change of combination.

Unmounted material (adapted from Cockerell 1914). Adult female oval, 4.5 mm long, densely covered in white cottony tufts which are slightly stained with yellow; with an elongated central mass of white wax surrounded by a channel or depression, except anteriorly, and margined by a series of short quadrate tufts, about seven on each side, separated from each other only by slight depressions; on each side, about 10 short subquadrate tufts which are not separated by any interval; anteriorly with a suberect, horn-like but truncate waxy projection, 1 mm or more long; posteriorly with a similar waxy projection, but much longer (up to 4 mm), projecting over the ovisac. Ovisac 3.0– 3.5 mm long, strongly fluted, white suffused with pink; without glassy filaments; legs and antennae blackish ( Figure 1F ).

Remarks. See remarks for C. brasiliensis above.

Figures

Figure 1. Colombian Crypticerya spp. A. Crypticerya abrahami (Newstead) after removing bark of tree trunk of Pithecelobium dulce. Note absence of long waxy secretions and ovisac. B. Crypticerya brasiliensis (Hempel). Note long and curved lateral waxy filament laterad to long caudal tuft (red arrow). C. Crypticerya genistae (Hempel). Note absence of long waxy tufts and presence of a long ovisac. D. Crypticerya montserratensis (Riley and Howard). Note very long thread-like waxy filaments. E. Crypticerya multicicatrices Kondo and Unruh. Note shorter waxy filament laterad to long caudal tuft (red arrow). F. Crypticerya zeteki (Cockerell). Note filament of intermediate length laterad to long caudal tuft. Photos: B by A. Caballero, A, C, E, F by T. Kondo, D reproduced from illustration by Riley and Howard (1890).