Valid Names Results

Antecerococcus madagascariensis (Mamet, 1959) (Cerococcidae: Antecerococcus)

Nomenclatural History

• Cerococcus madagascariensis Mamet 1959a: 408-410. Type data: MADAGASCAR: Bas Mangoky, Station Agricole, on undetermined host, ?/04/1955, by A. Robinson. Holotype, female, by original designation Type depository: Paris: Museum National d'Histoire naturelle, France; accepted valid name Illustr.
• Antecerococcus madagascariensis (Mamet, 1959); Hodgson & Williams 2016: 80-82. change of combination

Common Names

Ecological Associates

Geographic Distribution

Keys

• HodgsoWi2016: pp.20-23 ( Adult (F) ) [Species of Antecerococcus]
• LambdiKo1977a: pp.38 ( Adult (F) ) [Species of Cerococcus] Key as: Cerococcus madagascariensis

Remarks

• Systematics: Adult females of A. madagascariensis are somewhat similar to A. theydoni and A. yemenicus in having a broad band of small convex closed pores but these pores are much more abundant in the current species, on which they also form a group laterad to each metathoracic leg stub. Adult females of A. madagascariensis also have the following combination of character-states: (i) dorsum with three or four sizes of 8-shaped pores; (ii) largest 8-shaped pores restricted to margin and three broad transverse bands; (iii) largest 8-shaped pores absent from margins of posterior abdominal segments; (iv) smallest 8-shaped pores restricted to medially on posterior abdominal segments; (v) intermediate-sized 8-shaped pores present elsewhere but not intermingling with largest or smallest pores; (vi) cribriform plates in a submedial group of four or five on each side of abdominal segment IV; (vii) leg stubs present; (viii) posterior disc-pore band bifurcated; (ix) multilocular disc-pores sparse, in transverse bands across abdominal segments II–VI and laterad to metathoracic leg stubs; (x) small convex closed pores present in a band between pro- and metathoracic leg stubs; and (xi) antennae without a cone-like apex and setal cavity. (Hodgson & Williams, 2016)
• Structure: Test of adult female is coral red, hard, compact, subcircular, with margin bulging opposite the stigmatic furrows of the concealed female. Slide-mounted adult female is oval to round, 1.5 mm long. Derm membranous excepting the inner faces of the anal lobes, the dorsal anal plate, the discs bearing the cribriform plates and the small discs with granulated center associated with the spiracles (Mamet, 1959a).
• General Remarks: Detailed description and distribution by Lambdin & Kosztarab (1977a). Detailed redescription and illustration in Hodgson & Williams, 2016.

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