Valid Names Results

Antecerococcus cistarum (Balachowsky, 1927) (Cerococcidae: Antecerococcus)

Nomenclatural History

• Cerococcus cistarum Balachowsky 1927: 202-204. Type data: ALGERIA: Alger, Kouba, on Helianthemum glutinosum, ?/12/1926, by A. Balachowsky. Holotype, female, Type depository: Alger: Insectarium Jardin d'Essai, Algeria; accepted valid name Notes: Paratypes in USNM and BMNH. Balachowsky left no slides in Algeria, returning from Algeria with all his collection including types (Danièle Matile, pers. comm.). Balachowsky (1930, p. 210) states clearly that the type is in “Station centrale Entomology de Paris” [the collection is now the MNHN] but, as none of the type series was marked as “type” by Balachowsky, a specimen has been designated lectotype. Lectotype adf ( designated by Hodgson & Williams, 2016) and paralectotype adf (lectotype marked by an arrow) on 1 slide (MNHN 4854).
• Antecerococcus cistarum (Balachowsky, 1927); Hodgson & Williams 2016: 37-40. change of combination

Common Names

Ecological Associates

Hosts:

Families: 1 | Genera: 3

Geographic Distribution

Keys

• HodgsoWi2016: pp.20-23 ( Adult (F) ) [Species of Antecerococcus]
• TangHa1995: pp.226 ( Adult (F) ) [Species of Cerococcus] Key as: Cerococcus cistarum
• HamonKo1979: pp.16 ( First instar ) [Cerococcus first instars] Key as: Cerococcus cistarum
• LambdiKo1977a: pp.42 ( Adult (F) ) [Species of Cerococcus] Key as: Cerococcus cistarum
• Balach1941a: pp.91 ( Adult (F) ) [Palearctic species of Cerococcus] Key as: Cerococcus cistarum
• Balach1930b: pp.203 ( Adult (F) ) [Cerococcus species of north Africa] Key as: Cerococcus cistarum

Remarks

• Systematics: This species is similar to C. eremobius Scott (Balachowsky, 1927). The adult female of A. cistarum is distinctive in having: (i) dorsum with two intermediate-sized 8-shaped pores: (ii) intermediate-sized pores frequent throughout; smaller pores only present near anal lobes, (iii) large 8-shaped pores entirely absent; (iv) median anal plate triangular; (v) cribriform plates in a submedial group of three plates on each side of abdominal segment IV; (vi) leg stubs absent; (vii) posterior stigmatic bands bifurcated; (viii) multilocular disc-pores in a line one pore wide, across all abdominal segments, each with few pores; (ix) each stigmatic pore band forming a small oval group dorsally, without small eight-shaped pores, and (x) antennae without either a setal cavity or a cone-like extension. (Hodgson & Williams, 2016)
• Structure: Female test is highly convex, pyriform, red to brown in color and having white strands of wax in spiracular furrows. The test is smooth and without ridges. Male test is elliptical and brownish (Lambdin & Kosztarab, 1977a). Body slightly elongate pear-shaped, 1.0–1.3 mm long, 0.8–1.0 mm wide. (Hodgson & Willliams, 2016)
• General Remarks: Detailed redescription and illustration by Lambdin & Kosztarab (1977a). Hamon & Kosztarab (1979) provide a description and illustration of the first instar. Detailed redescription in Hodgson & Williams, 2016.

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