Valid Names Results

Ceroplastes deceptrix (De Lotto, 1965) (Coccidae: Ceroplastes)

Nomenclatural History

• Gascardia deceptrix De Lotto 1965a: 200. Type data: SOUTH AFRICA: Cape Province, Clanwilliam District, on Rhus undulata.. Holotype, female, Type depository: London: The Natural History Museum, England, UK; accepted valid name
• Ceroplastes deceptrix (De Lotto, 1965); Ben-Dov 1993: 30. change of combination

Common Names

Ecological Associates

Hosts:

Families: 5 | Genera: 2

Foes:

Families: 1 | Genera: 1

Geographic Distribution

Keys

• HodgsoPe2012: pp.40 ( ) [Key to adult females of C. deceptrix-group]
• HodgsoWiGi2009: pp.102-104 ( Adult (F) ) [Ceroplastes species of South Africa]

Remarks

• Systematics: In having ventral tubular ducts submarginally in the thorax and/or abdomen, and short blunt dorsal setae, C. deceptrix resembles C. rusticus (De Lotto). It differs in having (character-states of C. rusticus in brackets) (i) white wax (pale yellow); (ii) ventral tubular ducts not present medially on thorax (present); (iii) tubular ducts very sparse submarginally on thorax and absent submarginally on abdomen (fairly evenly distributed along entire submargin of body), and (iv) claw digitules of only slightly different sizes (very different). In having submarginal tubular ducts, C. deceptrix and C. rusticus are also somewhat similar to young C. madagascariensis but the latter has much longer, rather capitate dorsal setae, many more stigmatic setae and multilocular disc-pores which extend onto the thorax. (Hodgson & Peronti, 2012)
• Structure: Young adult females moderately convex, elliptical, about 3 mm long; wax test thin, fairly hard and brittle, not divided into plates; dorsum with a small depression at the centre of which is a minute elongate opaque white boss; colour semitransparent white; lateral margin with 2 narrow bands of snow-white wax arising from the stigmatic clefts. Wax of older examples white, amorphous, quite hard but watery when squashed, very thick (up to about 5 mm thick); stigmatic wax lines narrow, in deepish indentations, very white and linear; anal opening in a deep pit. Dorsal area with a small glassy boss. Largest adults 12 mm long and about 18 mm wide. (Hodgson & Peronti, 2012)
• General Remarks: Detailed description and illustration in Hodgson & Peronti, 2012.

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