Paraputo Laing 1929
Creators: name: Caballero, Alejandro
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2021
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Arthropoda
Insecta
Hemiptera
Pseudococcidae
Paraputo

description: IDENTIFICATION KEY TO NEW WORLD SPECIES OF PARAPUTO LAING, 1929 [adapted from descriptions and taxonomic keys in Balachowsky (1959), Williams (1969), Miller & McKenzie (1973), Williams & Granara de Willink (1992) and Foldi & Kozár (2005)]
1. Circulus absent ................................................................................................ P. guatemalensis (Ferris, 1953)
— Circulus present .......................................................................................................................................... 2
2. Thorax without cerarii ................................................................................................................................. 3
— Thorax with cerarii ...................................................................................................................................... 6
3. Multilocular disc pores absent; hind coxa without translucent pores ................. P. formicarii (Enrhorn, 1899)
— Multilocular disc pores present; hind coxa with translucent pores ................................................................ 4
4. Head without oral collar tubular ducts ................................................................ P. taquarae (Hempel, 1912)
— Head with oral collar tubular ducts ............................................................................................................. 5
5. Dorsum without oral collar tubular ducts; venter with oral collar tubular ducts all same size .......................... ..................................................................................................................... P. phoradendri (Cockerell, 1912)
— Dorsum with oral collar tubular ducts; venter with oral collar tubular ducts of 2 sizes .................................... ............................................................................................................. P. asparodensis (Foldi & Kozár, 2005)
6. Dorsum with oral collar tubular ducts ......................................................................................................... 7
— Dorsum without oral collar tubular ducts .................................................................................................... 9
7. Cerarii separate, numbering 17 pairs ................................................. P. angustus (Ezzat & McConnell, 1956)
— Cerarii merged into a continuous marginal band ......................................................................................... 8
8. Thorax with ventral oral collar tubular ducts .................. P. ductorum (Williams & Granara de Willink, 1992)
— Thorax without ventral oral collar tubular ducts ................................................. P. olivaceus (Cockerell, 1896)
9. Hind coxa with translucent pores .............................................................................................................. 10
— Hind coxa without translucent pores ......................................................................................................... 14
10. Hind femur and tibiae without translucent pores; anal ring setae each shorter than diameter of ring .............. ........................................................................................... P. taylori (Williams & Granara de Willink, 1992)
— Hind femur and tibiae with translucent pores; anal ring setae each as long as or longer than diameter of ring .... 11
11. Anal ring with 8 setae or more ........................................................................ P. subcorticis (Morrison, 1922)
— Anal ring with 6 setae ................................................................................................................................ 12
12. Cerarii merged to form a continuous marginal band .................................... P. ingrandi (Balachowsky, 1959)
— Cerarii separate, numbering 17 pairs ......................................................................................................... 13
13. Hind trochanter with translucent pores; head with oral collar tubular ducts ........... P. larai (Williams, 1969)
— Hind trochanter without translucent pores; head without oral collar tubular ducts ............... P. theobromicola (Williams & Granara de Willink, 1992)
14. Thorax with multilocular disc pores ................................................................ P. cualatensis (Cockerell, 1903)
— Thorax without multilocular disc pores ..................................................................................................... 15
15. Anal ring with 8 or more setae .......................................................................... P. rotundus (Morrison, 1922)
— Anal ring with 6 setae ................................................................................................................................ 16
16 Oral collar tubular ducts clearly of 2 sizes; head without tubular ducts ...................................... P. nasai n. sp.
— Oral collar tubular ducts all same size, with some present on head ............................................................ 17
17. Hind femoral anterior surface bearing about 21 setae; hind tibial anterior surface with 20-26 setae. Abdominal segments VII and VIII with longest dorsal seta about 30 µm long .................................................................. ............................................................................................................................ P. podagrosus (Green, 1933)
— Hind femoral anterior surface bearing 11-13 setae; hind tibial anterior surface with 10 or 11 setae. Abdominal segments VII and VIII with longest dorsal seta about 50 µm long .................................................................. .................................................................................. P. colombiensis (Williams & Granara de Willink, 1992)
description: Published as part of Caballero, Alejandro, 2021, Four new scale insect species (Hemiptera: Coccomorpha) associated with coffee roots in Colombia, South America, with identification keys for genera Newsteadia Green, 1902, Distichlicoccus Ferris, 1950, and Paraputo Laing, 1929, pp. 341-363 in Zoosystema 43 (18) on pages 355-356, DOI: 10.5252/zoosystema2021v43a18, http://zenodo.org/record/5037821