Valid Names Results

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

Nomenclatural History

• Antecerococcus muntingi Hodgson & Williams 2016: 83-85. Type data: SOUTH AFRICA: Cape Province, Tradouw Pass, on Erica sp. (Ericaceae), 1/11/1969, by J. Munting. Holotype, female, by original designation Type depository: Pretoria: South African National Collection of Insects, South Africa; accepted valid name Illustr.

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Families: 1 | Genera: 1

Geographic Distribution

Keys

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

Remarks

• Systematics: In having rather elongate dorsal 8-shaped pores throughout the dorsum but more rounded pores on each side of the stigmatic pore bands, the adult female of A. muntingi is similar to A. asparagi and A. insleyae. However, it differs from both in the very large size of the antennae; also from A. asparagi in having many fewer 8-shaped pores on the dorsum and many fewer spiracular disc-pores in each pore band, and from A. insleyae in having multilocular disc-pores on all abdominal segments (only present on II and III inA. insleyae) and in having almost all setae on anal lobes short, usually ≤30 μm long (usually ≥40 μm long on A. insleyae).
• Structure: Female body pear-shaped, small, 1.3 mm long and 1.05 mm wide. Margins of available specimen with shallow indentations in position of stigmatic pore bands. (Hodgson & Williams, 20 A. muntingi can be diagnosed by the following combination of character-states: (i) dorsum with 8-shaped pores of two types; (ii) large 8-shaped pores entirely absent; (iii) intermediate-sized 8-shaped pores elongate, significantly longer than wide, randomly distributed; (iv) small 8-shaped pores absent from stigmatic bands; (v) one large cribriform plate on each side of abdominal segment IV; (vi) leg stubs present; (vii) posterior stigmatic band bifurcated; (viii) each stigmatic pore band with fewer than 100 pores, apex of each band lacking minute 8-shaped pores; (ix) multilocular disc-pores present across all abdominal segments, each band with approximately the same number of pores, and also across metathorax, and (x) each antenna exceptionally large, with a deep setal cavity and a strong cone-like point on apex.6)
• General Remarks: Detailed description and illustration in Hodgson & Williams, 2016.

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