Valid Names Results

Antecerococcus bryoides (Maskell, 1894) (Cerococcidae: Antecerococcus)

Nomenclatural History

• Planchonia bryoides Maskell 1894b: 84. Type data: FIJI: on undetermined host, by R.L. Homes. Syntypes, female, by subsequent designation Type depository: Auckland: New Zealand Arthropod Collection, Landcare Research, New Zealand; Nelson: Cawthron Institute, New Zealand; Washington: United States National Entomological Collection, U.S. National Museum of Natural History, District of Columbia, USA; accepted valid name Notes: Though Lambdin & Kosztarab (1977a) state they examined paratypes, no evidence of a holotype can be found so the original type material must be considered syntypic. Illustr.
• Asterolecanium bryoides (Maskell, 1894); Cockerell 1896: 328. change of combination
• Phenacobryum bryoides (Maskell, 1894); Cockerell 1902h: 114. change of combination
• Antecerococcus bryoides (Maskell, 1894); Fernald 1903b: 58. change of combination
• Cerococcus bryoides (Maskell, 1894); Green 1908: 15. change of combination
• Corococcus bryoides; Ramakrishna Ayyar 1919b: 92. misspelling of genus name
• Cerococcus bryoïdes (Maskell, 1894); Balachowsky 1932d: 34. misspelling of species epithet
• Antecerococcus bryoides (Maskell, 1894); Hodgson & Williams 2016: 130. revived combination (previously published)

Common Names

Ecological Associates

Hosts:

Families: 9 | Genera: 11

Geographic Distribution

Keys

• HodgsoWi2016: pp.20-22 ( Adult (F) ) [Species of Antecerococcus]
• Wang2001: pp.514 ( ) [Key to Chinese species of Cerococcus] Key as: Cerococcus bryoides
• TangHa1995: pp.235 ( Adult (F) ) [Species of Phenacobryum] Key as: Phenacobryum bryoides
• Wang1994: pp.248 ( Adult (F) ) [China] Key as: Cerococcus bryoides
• Lambdi1987: pp.102 ( Adult (F) ) [Cerococcus species of the Australian region] Key as: Cerococcus bryoides
• HamonKo1979: pp.16 ( First instar ) [Cerococcus first instars] Key as: Cerococcus bryoides
• LambdiKo1977a: pp.44 ( Adult (F) ) [Species of Cerococcus] Key as: Cerococcus bryoides

Remarks

• Systematics: This species is close to C. theydoni and C. parahybensis (Hamon & Kosztarab, 1979). Lambdin and Kosztarab (1977) mention literature records of this species from China and India. In the absence of specimens, these records were considered dubius by Williams and Watson (1990) and are here considered likely to be misidentifications, probably of either A. indicus (Maskell) or A. roseus (Green). Both of the latter species are known from both countries and are morphologically similar. These species differ mainly as follows: (i) A. bryoides lacks multilocular disc-pores altogether, whilst A. indicus and A. roseus have a few submarginally on most abdominal segments, and (ii) A. bryoides lacks leg stubs whilst the other two species have well-developed leg stubs. (Hodgson & Williams, 2016)
• Structure: Test of adult female formed of a dull yellowish secretion, but is so thickly covered with secretionary matter which forms grey tufted filaments that it gives it a greyish brown tint. Test is irregularly oval, convex, and has a large anal opening. Male test is pale yellow, semi-transparent sometimes having a greyish tint. Adult female is dull yellow, broadly oval with elongated anal segment (Froggatt, 1915). The adult female of A. bryoides is characterised by the following combination of character-states: (i) 8-shaped pores of three sizes present on dorsum; (ii) large 8-shaped pores sparse, in loose swirls throughout dorsum anterior to cribriform plates; (iii) 8-shaped pores absent from within apices of stigmatic pore bands; (iv) posterior abdominal segments with about seven or eight large 8-shaped pores along each margin; (v) cribriform plates in three submedial groups of two plates on each side of body, with anterior pair on about abdominal segment III and posterior two pairs in submedial groups on segment IV; (vi) leg stubs absent; (vii) posterior stigmatic bands bifurcated; (viii) multilocular disc-pores entirely absent, and (ix) stigmatic pore bands narrow and not expanding much at apex. (Hodgson & Williams, 2016)
• General Remarks: Detailed description and illustration by Lambdin & Kosztarab (1977a). Hamon & Kosztarab (1979) provide a description and illustration of the first instar.

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