Valid Names Results

Antecerococcus perowskiae (Archangelskaya, 1931) (Cerococcidae: Antecerococcus)

Nomenclatural History

• Cerococcus perowskiae Archangelskaya 1931: 75. Type data: UZBEKISTAN: Ferghana Range, Shakhimardan, on Perovskia scrophulariaefolia, 25/07/1927, by A. Archangelskaya. Lectotype, female, by subsequent designation (Danzig1998b,306). Type depository: St. Petersburg: Zoological Museum, Academy of Science, Russia; accepted valid name Illustr.
• Cerococcus perovskiae Archangelskaya, 1931; Archangelskaya 1937: 179. emendation that is unjustified Notes: Archangelskaya (1931) described this species as Cerococcus perowskiae. Later, in 1937, she altered the spelling of the species epithet to C. perovskiae after the correct spelling of the host plant genus Perovskia. According to the International Code of Zoological Nomenclature Article 32, the original spelling is the valid one.
• Cercococcus perowskiae (Archangelskaya, 1931); Borchsenius 1960d: 107-108. change of combination
• Cercococcus polyporus Matesova 1975: 784. Type data: KAZAKHSTAN: North Aral Territory, on Artemisia terrae-albae, by Matesova. Holotype, female, Type depository: St. Petersburg: Zoological Museum, Academy of Science, Russia; junior synonym (discovered by HodgsoWi2016, 97). Notes: Paratypes in AAKA. Illustr.
• Cerococcus polyporus (Matesova, 1975); Lambdin & Kosztarab 1977a: 189. change of combination
• Cerococcus poliporus (Matesova, 1975); Kozár & Walter 1985: 76. misspelling of species epithet
• Antecerococcus perowskiae (Archangelskaya, 1931); Hodgson & Williams 2016: 96. change of combination

Common Names

Ecological Associates

Hosts:

Families: 2 | Genera: 6

Geographic Distribution

Keys

• HodgsoWi2016: pp.20-24 ( Adult (F) ) [Species of Antecerococcus]
• TangHa1995: pp.227 ( Adult (F) ) [Species of Cerococcus] Key as: Cerococcus perowskiae
• TangHa1995: pp.227 ( Adult (F) ) [Species of Cerococcus] Key as: Cerococcus polyporus
• Lambdi1983a: pp.77 ( Adult (F) ) [Species of Cerococcus] Key as: Cerococcus polyporus
• LambdiKo1977a: pp.39 ( Adult (F) ) [Species of Cerococcus] Key as: Cerococcus perowskiae
• LambdiKo1977a: pp.44 ( Adult (F) ) [Species of Cerococcus] Key as: Cerococcus polyporus

Remarks

• Systematics: Although Matesova (1975) considered that C. polyporus was close to C. cistarum, they are not considered to be very close by Hodgson & Williams, 2016. Antecerococcus perowskiae differs from A. cistarum (data for A. cistarum in brackets) as follows: (i) generally far more 8-shaped pores of at least three sizes on dorsum, in a series of swirled patterns (much less frequent, not apparently swirled and of two sizes); (ii) presence of a band of large 8-shaped pores along the margins of the posterior abdominal segments (absent); (iii) in the structure of the cribriform plates, which are fused and with several lying within a single cavity (not fused and in separate cavities), and (iv) multilocular disc-pores on abdomen abundant, each band 2–4 pores wide (much less frequent and two pores wide at most).
• Structure: Adult female is dark reddish brown, enclosed in the pear shaped test which is convex dorsally and flattened ventrally. Young female test is covered with many glassy light gray or white filaments resembling a hairy gall. Adult female with cribriform plates in 2 clusters on each half of body, with 5-8 plates per cluster (Lambdin & Kosztarab, 1977a). Male tests are small, elongate cylindrical and light yellow (Archangelskaya, 1931). Antecerococcus perowskiae can be characterised by the following combination of character-states: (i) dorsum with three or four sizes of 8-shaped pore; (ii) largest 8-shaped pores present throughout much of dorsum of head, thorax and anterior abdominal segments, often in swirls; (iii) largest pores also in a line of 7–10 on each side of posterior abdominal segments; (iv) intermediate-sized pores present throughout; (v) apex of each stigmatic band with 0–4 small 8-shaped pores; (vi) cribriform plates in submedial groups of 4–8, often fused on each side of segment IV; (vii) leg stubs absent; (viii) posterior stigmatic pore bands bifurcated; (ix) multilocular disc-pores abundant in bands across metathorax and all abdominal segments; and (x) antennae without either a conical apex or a setal cavity. (Hodgson & Williams, 2016)
• Biology: Males noted to emerge in late July in the former Soviet Union. Female is viviparous (Archangelskaya, 1931).
• Economic Importance: A small unidentified Hymenoptera has been bred from females (Archangelskaya, 1931).
• General Remarks: Description and illustration by Lambdin & Kosztarab (1977a). Detailed description and illustration of the junior synonym Cerococcus polyporus by Matesova (1975). Detailed redescription and illustration by Hodgson & Williams, 2016.

Illustrations

Citations