Valid Names Results

Antecerococcus pileae (Mamet, 1950) (Cerococcidae: Antecerococcus)

Nomenclatural History

• Cerococcus pileae Mamet 1950a: 35. Type data: MAURITIUS: Le Pouce Mountain, on Pilea rupipendia, 02/11/1948, by R. Mamet. Holotype, female, by original designation Type depository: Paris: Museum National d'Histoire naturelle, France; accepted valid name Illustr.
• Antecerococcus pileae (Mamet, 1950); Hodgson & Williams 2016: 102-104. change of combination

Common Names

Ecological Associates

Hosts:

Families: 1 | Genera: 1

Geographic Distribution

Keys

• HodgsoWi2016: pp.20-21 ( Adult (F) ) [Species of Antecerococcus]
• LambdiKo1977a: pp.40 ( Adult (F) ) [Species of Cerococcus] Key as: Cerococcus pileae

Remarks

• Structure: Test of adult female is elongate, brittle, without conspicuous wax and yellowish in color. Adult female is elongate with posterior end protruding (Mamet, 1950a). The following combination of character-states diagnoses A. pileae: (i) body elongate; (ii) dorsum with three or four sizes of 8-shaped pore; (iii) largest 8-shaped pores in groups around margin; (iv) smallest 8-shaped pores throughout dorsum and in apices of each stigmatic band; (v) posterior abdominal segments with five or six large 8-shaped pores along each margin; (vi) cribriform plates in a submedial group of two on either side of abdominal segment IV; (vii) leg stubs present; (viii) posterior stigmatic pore band not bifurcated; (ix) multilocular disc-pores present across all abdominal segments, including VIII and IX (latter possibly extending onto dorsum) and also laterad to metathoracic leg-stubs, and (x) antennae without a cone-like apex but with a setal cavity. (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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