Valid Names Results

Ceroplastes centroroseus Chen, 1974 (Coccidae: Ceroplastes)

Nomenclatural History

• Ceroplastes centroroseus Chen 1974: 325. Type data: CHINA: Sichuan Province, on Citrus sp.. Syntypes, female, accepted valid name Notes: Type material lost (F.T. Tang, 1989, personal communication).
• Paracerostegia centroroseus (Chen, 1974); Tang 1991: 305. change of combination
• Paracerostegla centroroceus Tao 1999: 61. misspelling of both genus and species names
• Ceroplastes centroroseus Chen, 1974; Deng, et al. 2012: 791. revived combination (previously published)

Common Names

Ecological Associates

Hosts:

Families: 10 | Genera: 11

Geographic Distribution

Keys

• LiWa2025: pp.103 ( Adult (F) ) [16 species of Ceroplastes found in China]
• WuWa2019: pp.521 ( Adult (F) ) [Ceroplastes in China]
• FetykoKo2012: pp.293 ( Adult (F) ) [Key to species of Ceroplastes in the Palaearctic Region based on slide-mounted adult females]
• Tang1991: pp.304 ( Adult (F) ) [China]

Remarks

• Biology: Ceroplastes centroroseus has one generation per year on Pinus yunnanensis in Panzhihua, Sichuan Province, where it overwinters as mated adult females and reproduces bisexually. Both immature and imago stages live on coniferous leaves (Tang et al. 1998).
• General Remarks: Description and illustration of the adult female given by Tang (1991).

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