New scale insects (Homoptera: Coccinea) from the Cape Floristic Region
Author
Gavrilov-Zimin, Ilya A.
corresponding author: coccids @ gmail. com
Author
Chetverikov, Philipp E.
Email: f. chetverikov @ spbu. ru
f.chetverikov@spbu.ru
text
European Journal of Taxonomy
2017
2017-11-14
366
1
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journal article
21957
10.5852/ejt.2017.366
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Cryptinglisia millari
Gavrilov-Zimin
sp. nov.
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Figs 4–5
Etymology
The species is named in honour of Dr. Ian Millar in view of his long term studies of South African scale insects.
Fig. 4.
Cryptinglisia millari
Gavrilov-Zimin
sp. nov.
, adult female, holotype.
Material examined
Holotype
SOUTH AFRICA
:
♀
in black circle,
Western Cape Prov.
, near
Lower Palmiet River
,
34°19.713 S
,
18°58.841 E
, on twigs of
Passerina
sp. (
Thymelaeaceae
),
9 Nov. 2016
,
S. Neser
and
Ph.E. Chetverikov
leg. (
K 1320
).
Paratypes
SOUTH AFRICA
:
1 ♀
, on the same slide and
6 ♀♀
on 3 other slides, all with the same collection data.
Description
Female
Body in life flat on venter and with two symmetric humps on dorsum (
Fig. 5
), covered with shining wax. Female on slide piriform, about
1.5 mm
long. Antennae short, 7–8 segmented. Legs very short, with partly reduced segments; claw without denticle; claw digitules on each claw asymmetric, one significantly larger than other (
Fig. 4
). Multilocular pores absent. Quinquelocular pores present on venter in stigmatic furrows. Preopercular pores forming row on dorsal side of abdomen along midline. Simple discoidal pores present along midline of abdominal dorsum together with compound pores. Tubular ducts of about same size forming wide marginal band on venter and also scattered on medial zone of thoracic sternites. Marginal conical setae short and stout. Stigmatic clefts marked each by 3 additional conical setae similar in size with marginal setae. Minute pointed setae sparsely scattered on venter.
Males and larvae
Unknown.
Comments
The genus
Cryptinglisia
Cockerell, 1900
comprised until now 3 African species (all were described from
South Africa
). The new species seems to be most similar with
C. elytropappi
(Brain, 1920)
, but, according to the redescription and illustration of
De Lotto (1967b)
, the latter species has only one stigmatic seta per stigmatic cleft (in contrast to 3 setae in addition to an uninterrupted row of marginal setae in
C. millari
sp. nov.
), symmetric claw digitules (strongly asymmetric in
C. millari
sp. nov.
) and does not have rows of simple pores along the margin and along the midline (see the Key below). The new species is ovoviviparous with fully developed larvae inside the mother’s body.