Valid Names Results

Antecerococcus pocilliferus (Neves, 1954) (Cerococcidae: Antecerococcus)

Nomenclatural History

• Cerococcus pocilliferus Neves 1954: 236. Type data: PORTUGAL: Lapa de Santa Margardia, on Cistus ladaniferus. Syntypes, unknown, by subsequent designation Type depository: Lisbon: Divisão de Pragas e Meios de Protecção, Direcção Geral de Protecção das Culturas, Portugal; accepted valid name Notes: The type material consists of four slides which are not in very good condition (José Carlos Franco, personal communication, November 9, 1999). Lectotype and paralectotype designated by Hodgson & Williams, 2016. Illustr.
• Cerococcus pacilliferus Neves, 1954; Borchsenius 1960d: 105. misspelling of species epithet
• Antecerococcus pocilliferus (Neves, 1954); Hodgson & Williams 2016: 104-106. change of combination

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Ecological Associates

Hosts:

Families: 1 | Genera: 1

Geographic Distribution

Keys

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

Remarks

• Structure: Larva is globose, almost flat. Adult female fully enclosed by sac of irregular contour and orange in color. Traces of gum or resin and some white filaments also attached (Neves, 1954). The adult female of A. pocilliferus is characterised mainly by the following combination of character-states: (i) dorsum with two or three sizes of 8-shaped pore; (ii) largest 8-shaped pores on dorsum restricted to margins of posterior abdominal segments; (iii) slightly smaller pores present within apices of each stigmatic band; (iv) smallest 8-shaped pores present throughout rest of dorsum; (v) cribriform plates in a group of three or four on each side of abdominal segment IV; (vi) leg stubs absent; (vii) posterior stigmatic bands bifurcate; (viii) all stigmatic pore bands short, barely reaching dorsum; (ix) multilocular disc-pores in five or six transverse bands across abdominal segments, and also sometimes submarginally on metathorax; (x) ventral 8-shaped pores extremely sparse across abdominal segments; (xi) each anal lobe with a strong medioventral seta, and (xii) antennae without a cone-like apex but perhaps with a shallow setal cavity. (Hodgson & Williams, 2016)
• General Remarks: Most detailed description and illustration by Neves (1954).

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