Valid Names Results

Antecerococcus oranensis (Balachowsky, 1941) (Cerococcidae: Antecerococcus)

Nomenclatural History

• Cerococcus oranensis Balachowsky 1941a: 84-87. Type data: ALGERIA: Oran, Marnia, on Cistus crispus, 14/02/1737, by M. Delassus. Lectotype, female, by subsequent designation (LambdiKo1977a,155). Type depository: Paris: Museum National d'Histoire naturelle, France; accepted valid name Illustr.
• Antecerococcus oranensis (Balachowsky, 1941); Hodgson & Williams 2016: 85-87. change of combination

Common Names

Ecological Associates

Hosts:

Families: 1 | Genera: 1

Geographic Distribution

Keys

• HodgsoWi2016: pp.20-22 ( Adult (F) ) [Species of Antecerococcus]
• LambdiKo1977a: pp.42 ( Adult (F) ) [Species of Cerococcus] Key as: Cerococcus oranensis
• Balach1941a: pp.91 ( Adult (F) ) [Palearctic species of Cerococcus] Key as: Cerococcus oranensis

Remarks

• Systematics: This species is close to Cerococcus intermedius (Balachowsky, 1941a). Antecerococcus pocilliferus (Neves) is extremely similar to A. oranensis, apparently only differing in the position of the largest 8-shaped pores, with those in A. pocilliferus lying within the stigmatic pore bands and those in A. oranensis lying close to but not actually within each band. It seems entirely possible that A. pocilliferus is identical to A. oranensis but, as few specimens of these two species have been seen, Hodgson & Williams left them as separate species in their revision of 2016.
• Structure: Female test is hemispherical, smooth, waxy and dull reddish brown. Female body is pear shaped (Lambdin & Kosztarab, 1977a). The adult female of An. oranensis can be diagnosed by the following combination of character-states: (i) dorsum with three or four sizes of 8-shaped pore; (ii) dorsal 8-shaped pores all similar, but largest just anterior to anal lobes and associated with apices of each stigmatic pore band; (iii) dorsal 8-shaped pores sparse and not clearly in whorls; (iv) smallest dorsal 8-shaped pores on posterior abdominal segments; (v) cribriform plates deeply invaginated, unevenly round, in a group of 1–6 submedially on each side of abdominal segment IV; (vi) leg stubs absent; (vii) posterior stigmatic pore band bifurcated; (viii) multilocular disc-pores in sparse bands across abdominal segments II–VI, plus one or two in VII and on metathorax, and (ix) each antenna with a broad, deep setal cavity but no apical cone-like point. (Hodgson & Williams, 2016)
• General Remarks: Detailed description and illustration by Lambdin & Kosztarab, 1977a. Detailed redescription and illustration in Hodgson & Williams, 2016.

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