The Luehea Wild. (Malvaceae) tree genus is composed by 47 neotropical species, from which 10 occurs in Brazil (Cunha, 1985). Luehea grandiflora Mart. and Zucc is a species adapted to degraded soils (Martins et al., 2008) and used for urban afforestation and forest restoration, and as wood for civil construction (Lorenzi, 2002). Only three insect species associated with L. grandiflora have been reported so far, including from the fly family, Cecidomyiidae, which is a gall inductor on central leaf veins (Maia, 2013); the mealybug Saissetia minensis Hempel, 1932 (Hemiptera: Coccidae) and the beetle Chauliognathus fallax Germar 1824 (Coleoptera: Cantharidae) (Schlottfeldt, 1944). These last two insect species were reported in Luehea divaricata in Viçosa, Minas Gerais, Brazil (Schlottfeldt, 1944), where, however, the only tree species is L. grandiflora (Ferreira Junior et al., 2007).
Females of the long-horned...
