A key to genera of Eriococcidae (Hemiptera: Coccoidea) from the Neotropical region and a revision of Pseudotectococcus Hempel (Eriococcidae), a gall inducing scale insect genus from Brazil, with a description of a new species

Abstract

A key is provided to the adult females of 16 of the 17 genera of Eriococcidae known from tropical South America. The adult female and 1st-instar nymph of the type species of Pseudotectococcus, P. anonae Hempel, is redescribed and a lectotype and paralectotypes designated; in addition, the adult female, adult male, 1st-instar nymph, 2nd-instar female and 2nd-instar male nymphs, prepupa and pupa of Pseudotectococcus rolliniae sp. n., discovered inducing leaf-galls on Rollinia laurifolia Schldtl. (Annonaceae) in the Zoo-Botanic Foundation, Belo Horizonte, Minas Gerais State, Brazil, are described. The differences between Pseudotectococcus and other South American genera are discussed.
 Key words: Eriococcidae, Neotropics, key, new species, Pseudotectococcus, lectotype.