The endemic Hawaiian mealybug genus Phyllococcus Ehrhorn, 1916 (Hemiptera: Coccomorpha: Pseudococcidae): redescription of the type species and description of a new species on an endangered host plant, Cryptocarya mannii (Lauraceae)
Author
Percy, Diana M.
Department of Botany and Biodiversity Research Centre, University of British Columbia, Vancouver, V 6 T 1 Z 4, BC, Canada.
Author
Watson, Gillian W.
Department of Life Sciences, the Natural History Museum, Cromwell Road, London SW 7 5 BD, U. K.
Author
Hodgson, Chris J.
Department of Biodiversity and Biological Systematics, The National Museum of Wales, Cardiff, CF 10 3 NP, Wales, U. K.
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Zootaxa
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http://dx.doi.org/10.11646/zootaxa.5447.3.2
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10.11646/zootaxa.5447.3.2
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Phyllococcus oahuensis
(Ehrhorn)
(
Figs 1A & B
,
2
,
3
)
Cissococcus? oahuensis
Ehrhorn 1912: 149
.
Phyllococcus oahuensis
(
Ehrhorn, 1912
)
;
Ehrhorn 1916: 236
, change of combination.
Phyllococcus oahuensis
was considered to be extinct by
Moir (2021)
, but a population was found on Maui in 2007 and the leaf galls were photographed by Dr Karl Magnacca [on
Urera glabra
, -.
viii.2007
, Kahanaiki Gulch below Puu Kukui cabins, Maui,
Hawaii
] (
Fig. 1
). Subsequently, the species was collected in 2012 by Keahi Bustamente on
U. glabra
in the East Maui Mountains, and this material is described below. These Maui collections represent a new island record for
Ph. oahuensis
. Note that the recorded host, either as
Urera sandwicensis
or
U. glabra
, is now considered to be a synonym of
Touchardia sandwicensis
(Wedd.)
(
POWO 2023
;
Wells
et al
. 2021
).
Material studied.
Lectotype
and
paralectotypes
:
1 slide containing
7 adult
females with a single label: “
Cissococcus
?
/
oahuensis / n.sp. /
on
Urera
sandwichensis [sic] / Tantalus / Oahu / EME
1.30.1911
”; specimens in fairly good condition (but most slightly distorted by pressure of coverslip); the
lectotype
, here designated, is the specimen located nearest the edge of the circular coverslip, and is marked with an adjacent black ink spot (
BPBM
).
The remaining
6 adult
females on the same slide become
paralectotypes
.
Other material studied:
2 slides, each containing
1 adult
female and
1 adult
male:
Hawaii
,
Mountains
nr
Koele
,
Lanai Island
,
June 1913
, ex herbarium specimens of
Urera glabra
, coll.
C.N. Forbes
; det.
J.W. Beardsley
(good, but large air bubbles under the coverslips have displaced and tilted some of the specimens).
Description below made from 2 slides, each containing
3 adult
females labelled:
Hawaii
,
West Maui Mountains
, Maui, ex
Urera glabra
leaf galls, coll.
Keahi Bustamente
,
22.viii.2012
, det.
J. Garcia
(good).
Note.
Although the
type
series and the material identified by Beardsley were seen by GW, the description and illustrations were made from
non-type specimens
due to restrictions on the loan of the
type
slide to
CH
.
We
are, however, convinced that the specimens examined from
West Maui Mountains
are conspecific with those from
Oahu
.