Valid Names Results

Ceroplastes eugeniae Hall, 1931 (Coccidae: Ceroplastes)

Nomenclatural History

• Ceroplastes rusci eugeniae Hall 1931: 298. Type data: ZIMBABWE: Mazoe and Banket, on Eugenia owariensis and Diplorhynchus mosambicensis.. Syntypes, female, Type depository: London: The Natural History Museum, England, UK; accepted valid name Notes: Lectotype designated in Hodgson & Peronti, 2012: Zimbabwe [Southern Rhodesia]: scratched onto glass slide: top label: Ceroplastes / rusci var. / eugeniae Hall / Eugenia / owariensis / Mazoe / WJH 3/11/27. Bottom label: Type / 21.iii.30 / W.J. Hall. (BMNH): 1/4 (good, lectotype arrowed in top right-hand corner (Hodgson & Peronti, 2012)
• Ceroplastes eugeniae Hall, 1931; Hodgson 1969: 4. change in status (level)

Common Names

Ecological Associates

Hosts:

Families: 9 | Genera: 14

Geographic Distribution

Keys

• HodgsoPe2012: pp.100 ( Adult (F) ) [Key to adult females in the Ceroplastes rusci-group]

Remarks

• Systematics: C. eugeniae is very close to C. rusci and C. eucleae but the latter 2 species differ from C. eugeniae in having generally fewer stigmatic setae in each cleft, particularly nonmarginal stigmatic setae. In addition, the specimens of C. rusci from north Africa and the Mediterranean have a distinct denticle on each claw, absent on most material from further south. (Hodgson & Peronti, 2012)
• Structure: Unmounted material. "Test of the adult female highly convex; the dome with a shallow median depression with a very small elongate boss, longitudinally orientated, pushed anteriorly by the cone of wax behind it. Plates only obscurely marked on the adult but more clearly on the young specimens. Diameter of the wax of the adult female up to 8 mm. With the wax removed, the adult female is highly convex, with 3 very small lateral processes, plus 1 cephalic and another dorsal; the caudal process is small and directed upwards at an angle of about forty-five degrees." (Hodgson, 1969). Mounted material. Body probably rather roundly oval and convex, with shallow stigmatic clefts; dorsum with distinct lateral tubercles. Caudal process short. Body length 2.5-3.5 mm, total width 1.5-2.75 mm. (Hodgson & Peronti, 2012)
• General Remarks: Description and illustration of the adult female given by Hodgson (1969).

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