Species: Dysmicoccus lepelleyi (Betrem) - Catalog
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Field Characters: Field characters not recorded. Based on characteristics of slide-mounted adult female, with body broadly oval; body covered by white mealy secretion; ovisac ventral only or absent entirely, absent from dorsum; 17 pairs of thin wax filaments around perimeter of body. Present on fruit, stems, and leaves of host.

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Validation characters: Dorsal margin of body with several large oral-collar tubular ducts; cerarii, excluding anal lobe pair, usually with 3 or more conical setae; dorsal abdominal segments VII and VIII usually with setae conspicuously longer than other dorsal setae; translucent pores on hind coxa, femur, and tibia, rarely also present on trochanter; ventral multiloculars usually restricted to posterior 3 segments, rarely on segments V and VI also.

Comparison: Dysmicoccus lepelleyi is similar to D. brevipes by usually having dorsal setae on segments VII and VIII that are much longer than on other segments and ventral multilocular pores usually confine to last 3 abdominal segments. Dysmicoccus lepelleyi differs by lacking discoidal pores near the eye and by having translucent pores on the hind coxa. Most other characters are quite variable.

U.S. quarantine notes: This species is commonly taken on a diversity of tropical fruit hosts such as Annona, Artocarpus, Citrus, Garcinia, Mangifera, and Psidium. It apparently is widespread in southern Asia having been intercepted at US ports-of-entry from Cambodia, Indonesia, Malaysia, Philippines, Singapore, Thailand, and Vietnam. Several species of Dysmicoccus other than D. brevipes, D. boninsis, D. grassii, D. neobrevipes, D. orchidum, and Dysmicoccus sp. nr. bispinosus have been taken in quarantine including: D. finitimus Williams (southern Asia), D. hambletoni Williams and Granara de Willink (Ecuador), D. lansii Williams (Philippines), D. lepelleyi (Betrem)(southern Asia), D. mackenziei Beardsley (Central America and Mexico on bromeliads), D. probrevipes (Morrison)(Central and South America); D. viatorius Williams (Philippines).

References: Betrem1937; Willia2004.

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