Valid Names Results

Cerococcus michaeli Lambdin, 1998 (Cerococcidae: Cerococcus)

Nomenclatural History

• Cerococcus michaeli Lambdin 1998: 297-300. Type data: NEW ZEALAND: North Island, Coromandel, on Dysoxylum spectabile. Holotype, female, by original designation Type depository: Washington: United States National Entomological Collection, U.S. National Museum of Natural History, District of Columbia, USA; accepted valid name Illustr.

Common Names

Ecological Associates

Hosts:

Families: 1 | Genera: 1

Geographic Distribution

Keys

• HodgsoWi2016: pp.18 ( Adult (F) ) [Key to cerococcid genera and unplaced species]
• Lambdi1998: pp.300 ( ) [Modified key to the adult females of Cerococcus]

Remarks

• Systematics: This is one of two Cerococcus species indigenous to New Zealand. It is distinguished from other species in the genus by the presence of an anal shield with a dorsal opening, spine-like apical setae on anal lobes, the occurrence of asteroform tubular ducts, and the absence of multilocular pores in transverse abdominal rows on the ventrum (Lambdin, 1998). Although C. michaeli has most of the main characteristics of adult females of Cerococcidae, Lambdin (1998) states that this species has: (i) asterolecaniid-type tubular ducts, which lack an inner ductule, but that there are 1–3 teeth within the cup-shaped invagination; (ii) a very small anal ring with six very short anal ring setae; (iii) an opening at the anterior end of the median anal plate for “waste elimination”, and (iv) anal lobes covered in small fleshy scale-like structures. All of these characteristics are unique and suggest that this species should probably be in a monotypic genus rather than Cerococcus. However, the type specimen could not be located in the USNM nor anywhere else. (Hodgson & Williams, 2016)
• General Remarks: Description in Lambdin, 1998.

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