taxonID	type	description	language	source
0C3287B4FF88FFEEFF4AFD09E075F849.taxon	type_taxon	Type species: Cryptostigma ingae Ferris, by original designation and monotypy [= Cryptostigma inquilina (Newstead)]. Generic diagnosis of adult female. In life: body oval, elongate oval, or subcircular, convex, rarely cylindrical (only when found inside narrow hollow twigs); usually with a thin glassy wax cover, rarely with rather thicker wax cover, sometimes with very long white waxy threads protruding from stigmatic areas; not producing an ovisac. Slide-mounted specimens: dorsal derm usually becoming heavily sclerotized at maturity; dorsal setae present or absent, when present, each spinose with apex pointed, blunt, knobbed, rounded, or occasionally spatulate; dorsal tubercles and dorsal tubular ducts absent; sclerotic pores, simple pores and preopercular pores present or absent; dorsal microducts present, each with opening single or bilocular, outer and inner ductules either short or long; orbicular pores present or absent; when present, each pore composed of a thin membrane with membranous or mildly to heavily sclerotized margins, sometimes associated with setae, simple pores and microducts; cribriform plates absent; cribriform platelets (very small cribriform plates generally less than 20 μm at widest point, found singly or in groups) present or absent; anal plates together quadrate, rarely pyriform, with rounded angles, each plate with 4 – 21 setae on dorsal surface, and 0 – 6 ventral subapical setae; anal ring commonly bearing 10 setae, but with up to 20 setae in C. serratum; eyes absent; marginal setae present or absent, when present each spinose or conical, stout, usually with apex pointed, often numerous; stigmatic clefts deep; spiracular sclerotizations present, each closely associated with a spiracle, each spiracular sclerotization either short or long, often enclosing spiracle; stigmatic setae numbering 0 – 3 per stigmatic area, present on each stigmatic sclerotization, setae often broken off, each seta bluntly or sharply spinose, or conical, all subequal in length; spiracles large, width of peritreme usually greater than length of legs, spiracular opening generally facing dorsally or towards body margin; antennae reduced, each usually 1 – 4 segmented, mostly 1 segmented or represented by a flattened segment bearing numerous setae, rarely with up to 8 fused segments in C. melissophilum Kondo; legs greatly reduced, with segments usually indistinct or fused, in many species represented by clusters of setae usually associated with a tiny sclerotic plate or claw; spiracular disc-pores each with 3 – 9 loculi; mouthparts well developed, labium with 8 labial setae; multilocular disc-pores each about same size or larger than a spiracular disc-pore, with 3 – 11 loculi (mostly with 5 – 8 loculi), distribution of multilocular disc-pores variable; ventral setae slender, pointed, usually abundant on posterior abdominal segments; ventral tubular ducts usually absent, but present in C. saundersi Laing and C. chacoense Kondo. Generic diagnosis of slide-mounted first-instar nymphs. Most first-instar nymphs of Cryptostigma can be diagnosed by the following combination of features (adapted and modified from Kondo 2010): dorsum with 1 or 2 membranous folds just anterior to anal plates, always showing signs of sclerotization; venter with antennae each 5 or 6 segmented; without a seta present near each coxa; ventral submedian setae usually numbering 3 (rarely up to 5) pairs, or with many setae on all abdominal segments and thorax, never arranged in 6 pairs.	en	Kondo, Takumasa, Roubik, David W. (2022): Description of a new ant- and stingless-bee-loving species of Cryptostigma Ferris (Hemiptera: Coccomorpha: Coccidae) from Ecuador living inside internodes of Cecropia (Urticaceae), with an updated key to the adult females and first-instar nymphs of the genus. Zootaxa 5190 (4): 543-554, DOI: https://doi.org/10.11646/zootaxa.5190.4.4
0C3287B4FF88FFEEFF4AFD09E075F849.taxon	discussion	Remarks. With the description of the new species, Cryptostigma is now composed of 18 species. The above diagnosis was adapted and modified from character states given by Kondo 2010).	en	Kondo, Takumasa, Roubik, David W. (2022): Description of a new ant- and stingless-bee-loving species of Cryptostigma Ferris (Hemiptera: Coccomorpha: Coccidae) from Ecuador living inside internodes of Cecropia (Urticaceae), with an updated key to the adult females and first-instar nymphs of the genus. Zootaxa 5190 (4): 543-554, DOI: https://doi.org/10.11646/zootaxa.5190.4.4
0C3287B4FF89FFEFFF4AFF2CE652FD7F.taxon	materials_examined	Material examined (Coccidae). Holotype. Adult ♀. Left label: Cryptostigma / cecropiaphilum Kondo & / Roubik, Ecuador, Orellana / Prov., Yasuní Biosphere / Reserve, ca 14 km North of / PUCE Scientific Field / Station, March 2018 / Coll. David W. Roubik. Right label: ex inside hollow stem of / Cecropia ficifolia Warb. / ex Snethl (Urticaceae) / inside nest of Plebeia sp. / Acid Fuchsin Stain / Canada Balsam, 1 (1) (CTNI: No. 7109). Paratypes. Same data as holotype, 54 (58 specimens: 17 adult ♀♀ + 10 third-instar nymphs + 24 second-instar nymphs + 7 first-instar nymphs) (CTNI: No. 7109); same data as holotype except date is May 2019, coll. D. Roubik and A. Argoti, 14 (15 specimens: 12 adult females + 3 third-instar nymphs) (CTNI: No. 7109); Francisco Orellana Province, Yasuni Biosphere Reserve, PUCE Scientific Field Station, 21. xi. 2017, coll. David W. Roubik, inside hollow stem of Cecropia ficifolia Warb. Ex Snethl (Urticaceae), tended by Azteca sp. ants, 2 (4 first-instar nymphs) (CTNI: No. 7109); Francisco Orellana Province, Yasuni Biosphere Reserve, PUCE Scientific Field Station, 10. xii. 2019, coll. David W. Roubik, inside hollow stem of Cecropia sciadophylla Mart. (Urticaceae), 4 (6 specimens: 1 adult female + 5 first-instar nymphs) (QCAZ).	en	Kondo, Takumasa, Roubik, David W. (2022): Description of a new ant- and stingless-bee-loving species of Cryptostigma Ferris (Hemiptera: Coccomorpha: Coccidae) from Ecuador living inside internodes of Cecropia (Urticaceae), with an updated key to the adult females and first-instar nymphs of the genus. Zootaxa 5190 (4): 543-554, DOI: https://doi.org/10.11646/zootaxa.5190.4.4
