New genera, new species and new combinations for some African Coccomorpha (Hemiptera: Sternorrhyncha)
Author
Hodgson, Chris J.
text
Zootaxa
2021
2021-08-11
5020
1
57
80
journal article
10.11646/zootaxa.5020.1.3
1175-5326
5222969
AD147734-6BFE-49AB-98C9-7B911D8FF38E
Genus
Inglisia
Maskell, 1879
Type
species
:
Inglisia patella
Maskell, 1879
Inglisia patella
is known only from
New Zealand
, and was redescribed by
Hodgson & Henderson (2000)
. It is unlike any other known soft scale and it is clear that none of the other seven species currently included in the genus are congeneric with it. Here the three African species,
I. grevilliae
Hall, 1935
,
I. pluvialis
Hodgson, 1967b
and
I. theobromae
Newstead, 1917
are transferred to
Cryptinglisia
Cockerell, 1900
as
C. grevilliae
(Hall)
comb. nov.
(
Fig. 5
),
C. pluvialis
(Hodgson)
comb. nov
.
(
Fig. 6
) and
C. theobromae
(Newstead)
comb. nov.
(
Fig. 7
). A full description of
C. pluvialis
is given by
Hodgson (1969)
, while
C. grevilliae
and
C. theobromae
are fully described in
Hodgson (1967b)
.
It would appear that
Cryptinglisia
has two centres of population, Central and South America and
South Africa
. There do not appear to be any clear morphological characters separating these 11 species into subgroups.