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Antecerococcus thesii Hodgson & Williams, 2016 (Cerococcidae: Antecerococcus)

Antecerococcus thesii Hodgson & Williams 2016: 120-122. Type data: SOUTH AFRICA: Cape Province, Cape Town, on Thesium sp. (Santalaceae), 6/9/1978, by S. Neser. Holotype, female, by original designation Type depository: Pretoria: South African National Collection of Insects, South Africa; accepted valid name Illustr.

Families: 1 | Genera: 1

Structure: Antecerococcus thesii is characterised by having the following combination of character-states: (i) dorsum with 8-shaped pores of three or four sizes; (ii) largest 8-shaped pores mainly restricted to broad bands around each stigmatic pore band and in submedial swirls on each thoracic segment; (iii) posterior abdominal segments with a line of 5–7 large 8-shaped pores on each side; (iv) most 8-shaped pores small and present throughout most of dorsum and in apices of each stigmatic pore band; (v) cribriform plates in a group of three or four on each side of abdominal segment IV; (vi) leg stubs large; (vii) posterior stigmatic pore bands bifurcated; (viii) multilocular disc-pores in eight segmental bands across abdomen and laterad to metathoracic leg stubs, and (ix) antennae without an apical cone-like apex or a setal cavity. (Hodgson & Williams, 2016)
General Remarks: Detailed description and illustration in Hodgson & Williams, 2016.

HodgsoWi2016: description, diagnosis, distribution, host, illustration, key, morphology, structure, taxonomy, 5, 24, 92, 120-122, 131