Valid Names Results

Antecerococcus asparagi (Joubert, 1925) (Cerococcidae: Antecerococcus)

Nomenclatural History

• Cerococcus asparagi Joubert 1925: 123. Type data: SOUTH AFRICA: Stellenbosch, on Asparagus thunbergianus, ?/05/1924, by C.J. Joubert. Lectotype, female, by original designation Type depository: Washington: United States National Entomological Collection, U.S. National Museum of Natural History, District of Columbia, USA; accepted valid name Notes: Although one slide is marked as type and the other three as paratypes, Joubert (1925) followed Brain and did not use the word type or holotype in his description and so these specimens should be considered syntypes and so a lectotype has been designated by Hodgson & Williams, 2016. It would have been proper to designate a lectotype from material held in SANC, but no type specimens are held there. Illustr.
• Antecerococcus asparagi (Joubert, 1925); Hodgson & Williams 2016: 33-35. change of combination

Common Names

Ecological Associates

Hosts:

Families: 1 | Genera: 1

Geographic Distribution

Keys

• HodgsoWi2016: pp.20-22 ( Adult (F) ) [Species of Antecerococcus]
• LambdiKo1977a: pp.45 ( Adult (F) ) [Species of Cerococcus] Key as: Cerococcus asparagi

Remarks

• Systematics: This species is close to A. royenae Brain (Joubert, 1925). The redescription and illustration by Hodgson & Williams, 2016 differs from those of Lambdin and Kosztarab (1977) in that they show the multilocular disc-pores on the metathorax as being close to the posterior spiracle, whereas they are someway posterior. They also show setose setae on inner margin of each anal lobe (but these are here considered to be medioventral setae) and a large fleshy seta medially which was not detected on the above specimens. Adult female A. asparagi have the following combination of character-states: (i) only two types of 8-shaped pore on dorsum, none large; (ii) most abundant type of 8-shaped pore narrow and elongate; (iii) no large -shaped pores along margins of posterior abdominal segments; (iv) anal lobes sclerotized throughout; (v) each stigmatic pore band with perhaps 200+ pores, very broad at apex, but lacking any minute 8-shaped pores; (vi) posterior stigmatic bands bifurcated; (vii) leg stubs present; (viii) multilocular disc-pores abundant across all abdominal segments, apart from VII and VIII, where usually absent; (ix) multilocular disc-pores present in a medial line across metathorax, (x) each antenna with a cone-shaped point on apex and a shallow setal cavity. (Hodgson & Williams, 2016)
• Structure: Adult female test is hard, brittle and yellow in color. Adult female is flesh colored and more or less circular (Joubert, 1925). Adult female with 8-shaped pores with lateral aperture, each pore half laterally elongate; 7-locular pores dominant in dorsal spiracular pore cluster; multilocular pores in transverse rows 1-5 pores wide (4th row 4 or 5 pores wide); 8-16 quinquelocular pores at base of each antenna; one pair of irregularly shaped elongate cribriform plates (Lambdin & Kosztarab, 1977a). Body pear-shaped, 2.5–3.0 mm long and 1.8–2.0 mm wide. Anal lobes heavily sclerotized throughout. (Hodgson & Williams, 2016)
• General Remarks: Detailed description and illustration by Lambdin & Kosztarab (1977a). Detailed redescription and illustration in Hodgson & Williams, 2016.

Illustrations

Citations