Valid Names Results

Antecerococcus kakamegae Hodgson & Williams, 2016 (Cerococcidae: Antecerococcus)

Nomenclatural History

• Antecerococcus kakamegae Hodgson & Williams 2016: 69-71. Type data: KENYA: Kakamega, on Croton sp. (Euphorbiaceae), 10/6/198 4, by Duggal. Holotype, , by original designation Type depository: London: The Natural History Museum, England, UK; accepted valid name Notes: Holotype specimen on right side, nearest name label. Originally identified as C. theydoni). Also paratypes: data as for holotype (BMNH):

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Families: 1 | Genera: 1

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• HodgsoWi2016: pp.20-22 ( Adult (F) ) [Species of Antecerococcus]

Remarks

• Systematics: Antecerococcus kakamegae is very similar to A. royenae Brain from South Africa. It differs mostly in having two clearly different sizes of 8-shaped pores on the dorsum, the larger pores in groups around the submargin—A. royenae arguably has two sizes of dorsal 8-shaped pores, although the two sizes are very similar and variable, the larger restricted to near the stigmatic pore bands. Other differences are (character-states for A. royenae in brackets) (i) presence of two pairs of cribriform plates (only one pair, although Lambdin & Kosztarab (1977) mention occasionally two pairs); (ii) absence of slender setae on inner margins of anal lobes (three pairs shown as present in Lambdin & Kosztarab’s figure but these probably refer to the medioventral setae, which are absent on A. kakamegae; see present description of A. royenae); (iii) anteroventral and medioventral setae considered absent (present and unusually long); (iv) more quinquelocular disc-pores in each stigmatic pore band—70–100 in A. kakamegae (fewer than 40 in A. royenae), and (v) absence of a band of simple pores on dorsum associated with cribriform plates (a distinct band of simple pores present laterad and between cribriform plates). It is just possible that this is an extreme form of A. royenae but, based on the above differences, it is here considered that they represent separate species.
• Structure: The adult female of A. kakamegae can be recognised by the following combination of character-states: (i) dorsal eight-shaped pores of two clearly different sizes, larger pores in groups around submargin and along margins of stigmatic bands; (ii) large 8-shaped pores absent from margins of posterior abdominal segments; (iii) smaller 8-shaped pore frequent throughout rest of dorsum; (iv) two cribriform plates present submedially on each side of abdominal segment IV; (v) leg stubs present; (vi) posterior stigmatic bands bifurcated; (vii) multilocular disc-pores present on abdominal segments II–VII and across metathorax; (viii) antennae with a distinct setal cavity and perhaps a short cone-like apex, and (ix) few ventral 8-shaped pores in rows across abdominal segments.(Hodgson & Williams, 2016)
• General Remarks: Detailed description and illustration in Hodgson & Williams, 2016.

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