Valid Names Results

Ceroplastes eucleae Brain, 1920 (Coccidae: Ceroplastes)

Nomenclatural History

• Ceroplastes eucleae Brain 1920a: 30. Type data: SOUTH AFRICA: Transvaal, Pretoria, on Euclea sp., Ochna sp. and Pavetta sp.. Syntypes, female, Type depository: Pretoria: South African National Collection of Insects, South Africa; accepted valid name
• Ceroplastes toddaliae spicatus Hall 1937: 122. Type data: ZIMBABWE[=RHODESIA]: South Marendellas, on Uapaca kirkiana.. Syntypes, female, Type depository: London: The Natural History Museum, England, UK; junior synonym
• Ceroplastes spicatus Hall, 1937; Mamet 1954: 12. Type depository: Curitiba: Departamento de Zoologia, Setor de Ciencias Biologicas, Universidade Federal do Parana, Brazil; Sáo Carlos, Departamento de Ecologia e Biologia Evolutiva da UNiversidade Federal de Sáo Carlos, Sáo Paulo, Brazil; change in status (level)

Common Names

Ecological Associates

Hosts:

Families: 6 | Genera: 6

Geographic Distribution

Keys

• HodgsoPe2012: pp.100 ( Adult (F) ) [Key to adult females in the Ceroplastes rusci-group]
• HodgsoWiGi2009: pp.102-104 ( Adult (F) ) [Ceroplastes species of South Africa]

Remarks

• Systematics: C. eucleae, which lacks distinct claw denticles, is very close to C. rusci, sharing with it generally fewer than 35 stigmatic setae in each cleft, but differs in having: (i) the stigmatic setae in each cleft almost invariably 3 deep (2 deep in most C. rusci) and (ii) more marginal setae anteriorly between the eyespots (generally more than 14 rather than less than 14 as on C. rusci).C. eucleae is also very close to C. eugeniae. (Hodgson & Peronti, 2012) After a study of the type series of C. spicatus by Hodgson & Peronti, 2012, no constant differences could be found between it and C. eucleae. The limb measurements of C. spicatus were larger but they considered this to be an environmental effect and synonymised C. spicatus with C. eucleae.
• Structure: "Adult female tests sometimes single on stem, often aggregated in dense masses. Test of adult female about 6 mm long, 5 mm wide, 5.5 mm high, without plaques but with the lower portion forming a wrinkled fold at the base of a highly conical dome. The colour is a delicate green, when alive, with the stigmatic bands conspicuous; when dry, it is semi-transparent, greenish yellow, with two white thin streaks on each side just above the stigmatic clefts. The central dome is pointed, without any central pit or depression, and is distinctly separated from the lower portion of the test by a groove. There is no indication of a caudal prominence on the test." "Female denuded of wax, smooth, regularly domed, without caudal prominence. Caudal prominence rudimentary". (Brain, 1920a). Body oval, probably rather convex, with shallow stigmatic clefts; dorsum probably with distinct tubercles. Caudal process short and stout. Length of body 1.2-4.5 (3.5-4.0) mm, total width of mounted specimens 1.2-4.0 (2.75) mm; width of venter 1.2-2.25 (2.5) mm. (Hodgson & Peronti, 2012)
• General Remarks: Description and illustration of the adult female given by Hodgson (1969). Detailed description and illustrations in Hodgson & Peronti, 2012)

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