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Insecta Mundi
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Document Type
Article
Date of this Version
March 2005
Abstract
Resumo:
A cochonilha Phoenicococcus cribiformes é descrita do Rio Grande do Sul, Brasil. Além de Phoenicococcus marlatti Cockerell, 1899, é a segunda espécie conhecida da familia Phoenicococcidae. A fêmea adulta de P. cribiformes difere da P. marlatti por apresentar nos primeiros segmentos abdominais um par de placas cribiformes. Ela foi coletada sobre Araucaria angustifolia (Bertol.), o chamado Pinheiro-do-Paraná, dentro da casca do tronco. Foi observada uma associação com formigas do gênero Brachymyrmex.
Abstract:
The scale insect Phoenicococcus cribiformes is described from Rio Grande do Sul, Brazil. Besides Phoenicococcus marlatti Cockerell, 1899 this is the second known species of the family Phoenicococcidae. The adult female of P. cribiformes differs from P. marlatti showing cribiform plates on the first abdominal segments. It was collected on Araucaria angustifolia (Bertol.), the so-called Parana pine, inside the bark of the tree trunk. An association with ants of Brachymyrmex sp. was observed.
Comments
Insecta Mundi, published by the Center for Systematic Entomology, is available online at http://centerforsystematicentomology.org/. Copyright © by Wolff and Ketterl.