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Antecerococcus albospicatus (Green, 1909) (Cerococcidae: Antecerococcus)

This catalog page aggregates the information for all subspecies of Antecerococcus albospicatus. If you are looking for information specific to the binomial, click on the link to the nominal trinomial below.

Subspecies:

Antecerococcus albospicatus albospicatus

Antecerococcus albospicatus javensis

Nomenclatural History

• Cerococcus albospicatus Green 1909a: 308. Type data: SRI LANKA: Nuwera Eliya, on Symplocos obtusa. Lectotype, female, by subsequent designation (LambdiKo1977a,46-50). Type depository: London: The Natural History Museum, England, UK; accepted valid name Illustr.
• Cerococcus albospicatus javensis Boedign & Steinmann 1930: 52. nomen nudum that is unplaced Notes: This species is referenced in Boedign & Steinmann (1930) as having been described by Bernard. No year was cited for the Bernard paper and no evidence of a description has been found in any Bernard paper. This species is here considered a nomen nudum.
• Phenacobryum albospicatus (Green, 1909); Tang & Hao 1995: 235. change of combination
• Antecerococcus albospicatus (Green, 1909); Hodgson & Williams 2016: 24-26. change of combination

Common Names

Ecological Associates

Hosts:

Families: 2 | Genera: 2

Geographic Distribution

Keys

• HodgsoWi2016: pp.20-23 ( Adult (F) ) [Species of Antecerococcus]
• TangHa1995: pp.235 ( Adult (F) ) [Species of Phenacobryum] Key as: Phenacobryum albospicatum
• HamonKo1979: pp.17 ( First instar ) [Cerococcus first instars] Key as: Cerococcus albospicatus
• LambdiKo1977a: pp.44 ( Adult (F) ) [Species of Cerococcus] Key as: Cerococcus albospicatus
• Green1909a: pp.305 ( ) [Cerococcus species of Sri Lanka] Key as: Cerococcus albospicatus

Remarks

• Systematics: This species is near C. cycliger (=Antecerococcus intermedius) in general morphology (Hamon & Kosztarab 1979). The adult female of A. albospicatus is close to A. indicus and A. roseus. All three species are from Sri Lanka and India.
• Structure: Test of adult female with dorsum almost completely concealed by large stout tapering pointed waxy processes of a creamy white tint. Male puparium is oblong, crimson colored with same wax covering. Young larva narrow and pointed at extremities (Green, 1909a). Female body roundly pear-shaped but with a few lateral fleshy protuberances; length 2.1–3.0 [3.1] mm, width 1.6–2.6 [2.2] mm. Margins with a few fleshy protuberances. A. albospicatus is characterized by the presence of: (i) short, finger-like membranous processes along margin; (ii) 8-shaped pores of two or three sizes; (iii) large and intermediate-sized 8-shaped pores about equally frequent in a swirl-like pattern throughout head, thorax and anterior abdominal segments; (iv) each margin of posterior abominal segments with 8–11 large 8-shaped pores; (v) cribriform plates round, in groups of 2–7 on each side of abdominal segment IV; (vi) stigmatic pore bands with 0 or 1 small 8-shaped pores in each apical group; (vii) posterior stigmatic pore bands bifurcated; (viii) leg stubs small; (ix) multilocular disc-pores very few, restricted to submargins of segments III–VIII; (x) antennae with a setal cavity but no apical cone-like extension, and (xi) posterior seta on ventral surface of each anal lobe stoutly setose. (Hodgson & Williams, 2016)
• General Remarks: Detailed redescription and illustration by Lambdin & Kosztarab (1977a). Description and illustration of first instar by Hamon & Kosztarab (1979). Detailed redescription and illustration in Hodgson & Williams, 2016.

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