Revisão taxonômica e análise cladística de Termitococcinae Jakubski, 1965 (Hemiptera, Coccoidea, Margarodidae)

• Ano de defesa: 2010
• Autor(a) principal: Silva, Daniele Campos da
• Orientador(a): Carvalho, Gervásio Silva
• Tipo de documento: Dissertação
• Tipo de acesso: Acesso aberto
• Idioma: por
• Instituição de defesa: Pontifícia Universidade Católica do Rio Grande do Sul; Porto Alegre
• Palavras-chave em Português: ZOOLOGIA; ENTOMOLOGIA; HEMÍPTEROS; INSETOS; TAXIONOMIA
• Link de acesso: http://hdl.handle.net/10923/5357

The Termitococcinae forms a group of scale insects exclusively Neotropical. It contains five species in two genera: Termitococcus aster Silvestri, 1901, Termitococcus carratoi Silvestri, 1936, Eurhizococcus brasiliensis (Wille, 1922), Eurhizococcus brevicornis (Silvestri, 1901) and Eurhizococcus colombianus Jakubski, 1965. Redescriptions of all the species currently included in the Termitococcinae were made based on the study of types and material from various institutions. The study provides morphological descriptions of three life stages (crawlers, cyst and adult female) of the above species. Based on the principle of parsimony, a hypothesis of phylogenetic relationships for species of Termitococcinae using morphological, development and biological data was formulated.