Valid Names Results

Antecerococcus passerinae (Brain, 1920) (Cerococcidae: Antecerococcus)

Nomenclatural History

• Cerococcus passerinae Brain 1920: 121. Type data: SOUTH AFRICA: Montague, on Passerina ericoides, By C.P.v.d. Merwe. Lectotype, female, by subsequent designation (LambdiKo1977a,176). Type depository: Washington: United States National Entomological Collection, U.S. National Museum of Natural History, District of Columbia, USA; accepted valid name Illustr.
• Antecerococcus passerinae (Brain, 1920); Hodgson & Williams 2016: 95-97. change of combination

Common Names

Ecological Associates

Hosts:

Families: 2 | Genera: 2

Geographic Distribution

Keys

• HodgsoWi2016: pp.20-24 ( Adult (F) ) [Species of Antecerococcus]
• HamonKo1979: pp.15 ( First instar ) [Cerococcus first instars] Key as: Cerococcus passerinae
• LambdiKo1977a: pp.39 ( Adult (F) ) [Species of Cerococcus] Key as: Cerococcus passerinae
• Brain1920: pp.119 ( ) [South African species of Cerococcus] Key as: Cerococcus passerinae

Remarks

• Systematics: Hamon & Kosztarab (1979) state that this species is close to C. corokiae. The adult female of A. passerinae can be diagnosed by the following combination of character-states: (i) dorsum with three sizes of 8-shaped pores; (ii) largest 8-shaped pores restricted to around margin and very sparsely in radial bands from each stigmatic pore band; (iii) intermediate-sized pores present throughout rest of dorsum but becoming smaller posteriorly; (iv) each stigmatic band with 2–8 smallest 8-shaped pores in apex; (v) posterior abdominal segments with five or six largest 8-shaped pores on each margin; (vi) cribriform plates in a submedial group of two or three on each side of abdominal segment IV; (vii) leg stubs present; (viii) posterior stigmatic bands bifurcated; (ix) multilocular disc-pores in seven transverse bands on abdomen and occasionally on metathorax, and (x) antennae without either a cone-like apex or a setal cavity. (Hodgson & Williams, 2016)
• Structure: Test of adult female is elongate, convex, thin, brittle and straw yellow. Puparium of the male is usual, elongate and paler in color than that of the female. Adult female is broadly pear shaped, with the prominent anal portion produced. The integument is thin and hyaline (Brain, 1920).
• General Remarks: Detailed description and illustration by Lambdin & Kosztarab (1977a). Hamon & Kosztarab (1979) provide a detailed description and illustration of the first instar. Detailed redescription and illustration of adult female in Hodgson & Williams, 2016.

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