Valid Names Results

Ceroplastes ficus Newstead, 1910 (Coccidae: Ceroplastes)

Nomenclatural History

• Ceroplastes ficus Newstead 1910c: 190. Type data: TANZANIA: Bukoba, on Ficus sp.. Syntypes, female, Type depository: London: The Natural History Museum, England, UK; accepted valid name
• Ceroplastes pallidus Brain 1920a: 33. Type data: SOUTH AFRICA: Transvaal, Pretoria, on fig.. Syntypes, female, Type depository: Pretoria: South African National Collection of Insects, South Africa; junior synonym (discovered by Hall1931, 294).

Common Names

Ecological Associates

Hosts:

Families: 8 | Genera: 10

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

• Structure: Unmounted material. "Test of the adult female more or less hemispherical, thin, semitransparent, hard and brittle, shaded with horn coloured greys and browns; the large dorsal area comparatively smooth, with distinct lines radiating from the central nucleus, the larger ones being widely separated and equidistant. Besides these there are also some faint concentric ones visible in some of the examples. Lateral plates narrowly rectangular, length much greater than width, outer angles produced and darker than the rest; caudal process triangular, with the angle rounded; anal valves nude, minute, and only visible under a rather strong magnification. Length 6-6.5 mm; width 5-5.25 mm." (Newstead, 1910c). Mounted material. Body oval, probably rather convex, with shallow, stigmatic clefts; dorsum of mature adults with very pronounced, hemispherical lateral tubercles, with deep indentations between tubercles but much less pronounced on immature adults. Caudal process rather similar to a lateral lobe, with only apex sclerotised, at least on younger specimens. Limbs relatively short. Length 2.5-6.0 mm, total width of mounted specimen 2.0-5.0 mm. (Hodgson & Peronti, 2012)
• General Remarks: Detailed description and illustration in Hodgson & Peronti, 2012.

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