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
2024
2024-05-07
5447
3
355
372
http://dx.doi.org/10.11646/zootaxa.5447.3.2
journal article
10.11646/zootaxa.5447.3.2
1175-5326
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Phyllococcus cryptocaryae
Percy, Watson & Hodgson
,
sp. n.
(
Figs. 4D, E and F
,
5
)
Material examined.
Holotype
adult female:
Cryptocarya mannii
/
5 July 2014
/
USA
,
Central Waianae
/
Mountains
,
Oahu
,
Hawaiian
/
Islands
,
21.4574N
, -
158.0970W
. / leaf gall /
D. Percy
leg.
Hi
65.2-14 / mounted singly on a slide (
NHMUK
)
.
Paratypes
:
data as for holotype;
3 adult
females, mounted singly on slides (2
NHMUK
, 1
BPBM
); 1 pharate second-instar female nymph on 1 slide, and 2 third-instar female nymphs, one containing a pharate adult female, mounted together on 1 slide (
NHMUK
)
.
Note.
The
four adult
female specimens are all slightly damaged, lacking some legs or antennae, and with the labium distorted. Due to the heavy sclerotisation of the dorsal shield, it is not possible to determine the extent of the sclerotisation of the posterior venter but it is here considered that the underside of the anal lobes may also be sclerotised to some extent.