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

Nomenclatural History

• Cerococcus cliffortiae Joubert 1925: 123-124. Type data: SOUTH AFRICA: Stellenbosch, University Farm, on Cliffortia ruscifolia, ?/05/1924, by C.J. Joubert. Holotype, female, Type depository: Washington: United States National Entomological Collection, U.S. National Museum of Natural History, District of Columbia, USA; accepted valid name Notes: Type material also located at BMNH and VPIC (Lambdin & Kosztarab, 1977a). These slides are part of the Brain collection and the lectotype slide is marked as type and holotype by Lambdin and Kosztarab. However, Joubert (1925) followed Brain and did not mention a type or holotype specimen in his description and so these specimens must be considered syntypes. A lectotype has therefore 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. USNM also has an empty jacket with no slide from the same series (Miller, pers. comm.) [Note: type slide dated 1924, not 1925 as in Lambdin and Kosztarab, 1977, p. 87]. Illustr.
• Antecerococcus cliffortiae (Joubert, 1925); Hodgson & Williams 2016: 40-42. change of combination

Common Names

Ecological Associates

Hosts:

Families: 1 | Genera: 1

Geographic Distribution

Keys

• HodgsoWi2016: pp.20-21 ( Adult (F) ) [Species of Antecerococcus]
• LambdiKo1977a: pp.41 ( Adult (F) ) [Species of Cerococcus] Key as: Cerococcus cliffortiae

Remarks

• Systematics: The adult female of A. cliffortiae is distinctive in having: (i) dorsum with three sizes of 8-shaped pore; (ii) largest 8-shaped pores restricted to one on either side of apex of each stigmatic pore band: (iii) only small 8-shaped pores present elsewhere; (iv) no large 8-shaped pores along margins of posterior abdominal segments; (v) medial plate triangular shaped; (vi) cribriform plates in submedial group of three on each side of abdominal segment IV; (vii) leg stubs absent; (viii) posterior stigmatic bands bifurcated; (ix) each stigmatic pore band parallel-sided, and without small eight-shaped pores associated with apex; (x) quinquelocular disc-pores also present in a band between each antenna and anterior spiracle; (xi) multilocular disc-pores in a line one pore wide with few pores, but present across all abdominal segments and submarginally on metathorax, and (xii) each antenna with a setal cavity but no obvious cone-like extension.
• Structure: Female test is oval with a tubular caudal prominence, but many observed have been compressed from side to side between pieces of partly detached bark. The test is tough, reddish brown and has three delicate white spiracular bands. Living female is dull purple and circular (Joubert, 1925). Body roundly pear-shaped, 1.61 mm long, 1.25 mm wide. (Hodgson & Williams, 2016) The description by Hodgson & Williams is similar to that of Lambdin and Kosztarab (1977) except that (i) Lambdin & Kosztarab illustrate a few 5-loculate pores present in a line between the anterior and posterior spiracles on each side (although they do not mention these in the text), but Hodgson & Williams did not find these on our specimen; and (ii) they considered the most anterior multilocular disc-pore band to be on the abdomen whereas it is clearly on the metathorax.
• Biology: Joubert (1925) states that "this species apparently produces a large amount of honeydew considering the fact that the host plant stems were covered with sooty fungus, although the insects were not numerous and no other coccid was present."
• General Remarks: Detailed description and illustration by Lambdin & Kosztarab (1977a). Detailed redescription ad illustration in Hodgson & Williams, 2016.

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