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Issue: Vol. 5763 No. 2: 3 Mar. 2026
Type: Article
Published: 2026-03-03
DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.5763.2.4
Page range: 240-254
Abstract views: 76
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Two new species and a new genus of soft scale insects (Hemiptera: Coccomorpha: Coccidae) from the Brazilian Cerrado

Corporación Colombiana de Investigación Agropecuaria – Agrosavia; Centro de Investigación Palmira; Diagonal a la intersección de la Carrera 36A con Calle 23; Palmira; Valle; Colombia.
Departamento de Protección Vegetal; Unidad de Entomología; Facultad de Agronomía; Universidad de la República; Garzón 780; Montevideo; Uruguay.; Instituto Biología; Sección Entomología; Facultad de Ciencias; Universidad de la República; Iguá 4225; Montevideo; Uruguay.
Departamento de Fitossanidade; Faculdade de Ciências Agrárias e Veterinárias – FCAV; Universidade Estadual Paulista “Júlio de Mesquita” Filho – UNESP; Jaboticabal; SP; 14884-900; Brazil.
Hemiptera Cerrado coccids soft scale insects Sternorrhyncha identification key

Abstract

Two new species of soft scale insect (Hemiptera: Coccomorpha: Coccidae) from the Brazilian Cerrado are described and illustrated based on the adult females. A new monotypic genus, Cerradococcus Kondo, Pacheco da Silva & Peronti, gen. nov., is erected to accommodate Cerradococcus gillianwatsonae Kondo, Pacheco da Silva & Peronti, sp. nov., found on leaves of Didymopanax vinosus (Cham. & Schltdl.) Marchal (Araliaceae). In addition, a new species of Philephedra Cockerell, 1898, Philephedra paralutea Kondo & Pacheco da Silva, sp. nov., found on an undetermined host plant, is described. Philephedra zipolitana Gavrilov-Zimin, 2023 is sunk as a junior synonym of Philephedra parvula (Cockerell, 1899), syn. nov. A diagnosis for the genus Philephedra and an updated key to species in the genus are also provided.

 

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How to Cite

Kondo, T., Silva, V.C.P.D. & Peronti, A.L.B.G. (2026) Two new species and a new genus of soft scale insects (Hemiptera: Coccomorpha: Coccidae) from the Brazilian Cerrado. Zootaxa, 5763 (2), 240–254. https://doi.org/10.11646/zootaxa.5763.2.4