Valid Names Results

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

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.
• 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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