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A new leucopine genus (Diptera: Chamaemyiidae) with species attacking Ceroplastes wax scales (Hemiptera: Coccidae) in South America
Author(s) -
Gaimari Stephen D.,
Tanasijtshuk Vitali N.
Publication year - 2001
Publication title -
systematic entomology
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 1.552
H-Index - 66
eISSN - 1365-3113
pISSN - 0307-6970
DOI - 10.1046/j.1365-3113.2001.00156.x
Subject(s) - coccidae , biology , hemiptera , genus , type species , zoology , spermatheca , taxonomy (biology) , botany , pest analysis , homoptera , sperm
. A new genus, Echinoleucopis , is proposed within Chamaemyiidae (Diptera). This leucopine genus clearly differs from other Chamaemyiidae in the high lunule, reduction and fusion of spermathecae in females and rounded form of puparia. Within Echinoleucopis , five new species ( bennetti , grioti , iota , macula and nigrolinea ) are described, in addition to lectotype designation, redescription and recombination for the type species of the genus, Leucopina ceroplastophaga Blanchard. Phylogenetic relationships among the included taxa are hypothesized. All known species of the genus are from South America and are predators on eggs within an ovisac of wax scales in genus Ceroplastes Gray (Hemiptera: Coccidae).