Paraleyrodes  singularis   Bondar

Nomenclature :    

Paraleyrodes  singularis   Bondar   [Bondar, 1923:  97].

Host : [Bondar, 1923:  97]:  Chrysobalanaceae: Licania tomentosa;   Fabaceae: Inga sp.; Myrtaceae: Myriciaria jaboticuba;  Rutaceae: Citrus.

Distribution:  Neotropical:  Brazil [Bondar, 1923:  97][S.E.L.],  Colombia [S.E.L.],  Panama [S.E.L.],  Trinidad & Tobago [S.E.L.].     

Taxonomy [Bondar, 1923:  97, 100]:  The larger cephalic & four posterior compound pores with a central lumen composed of about 8 stylized flower petal shaped facets of the outer annulus (ring). 

Sometimes the third posterior compound pore is reduced resembling the first two reduced abdominal posterior compound pores.

first reduced anterior abdominal compound pore closer to the midline than the the other abdominal compound pores.

Related species:   no specimens available for comparison.

It differs having only 8 flower pedal-shaped facets of the outer ring of the large compound pores from Paraleyrodes bondari  Peracchi & Paraleyrodes crateraformans Bondari that have 10-12 pedal shaped facets.  It also differs with only the two anterior compound pores reduced from Paraleyrodes crateraformans Bondar  in that  this species has the first reduced anterior abdominal compound pore closer to the midline than the the other abdominal compound pores whereas the latter has first reduced anterior abdominal compound pore more in line with the the other abdominal compound pores.