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Issue: Vol. 5588 No. 2: 14 Feb. 2025
Type: Article
Published: 2025-02-14
DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.5588.2.4
Page range: 269-286
Abstract views: 218
PDF downloaded: 13

Redescription of Tachardiella ourinhensis Hempel, 1937 (Hemiptera: Kerriidae) and its transfer to Neotachardiella gen. nov., with descriptions of two new species of Neotachardiella on Myrtaceae from Brazil and Uruguay

Corporación Colombiana de Investigación Agropecuaria—Agrosavia; Centro de Investigación Palmira; Diagonal a la intersección de la Carrera 36A con Calle 23; Palmira; Valle; Colombia
Instituto Biología; Sección Entomología; Facultad de Ciencias; Universidad de la República; Iguá 4225; Montevideo; Uruguay; Departamento de Protección Vegetal; Unidad de Entomología; Facultad de Agronomía; Universidad de la República; Garzón 780; Montevideo; Uruguay
Embrapa Trigo—Passo Fundo; RS; 99050-970; Brazil
Veraguas 1980; CP12500; Villa Colón; 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 Insect pest lac insect morphology phylogeny scale insect taxonomy urban pest

Abstract

The lac insect, Tachardiella ourinhensis Hempel, 1937 (Hemiptera: Coccomorpha: Kerriidae), is redescribed and illustrated based on type material, and transferred to Neotachardiella Kondo, Peronti & Pacheco da Silva, gen. nov. as Neotachardiella ourinhensis (Hempel), comb. nov. Additionally, two new species, Neotachardiella charruarum Kondo, Peronti & Pacheco da Silva, sp. nov. and Neotachardiella nangapire Kondo, Peronti & Pacheco da Silva, sp. nov., are described and illustrated based on adult females collected in Uruguay and Brazil, respectively, on various species of Myrtaceae. In addition, the first-instar nymph of N. charruarum is described and illustrated. A lectotype is designated for T. ourinhensis based on slides mounted from type material deposited at the Instituto Biológico de São Paulo, Brazil. A taxonomic key to separate all known genera of the family Kerriidae and a key to separate the species of Neotachardiella are provided.

 

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