Valid Names Results

Ceroplastes grandis Hempel, 1900 (Coccidae: Ceroplastes)

Nomenclatural History

• Ceroplastes grandis Hempel 1900a: 455. Type data: BRAZIL: São Paulo, Ypiranga, on Zanthoxylum sp., Ilex sp., Psidium sp., Mechilia flava, Baccharis sp. and various Myrtaceae.. Syntypes, female, Type depository: Sao Paulo: Museu de Zoologia, Universidade de Sao Paulo, Brazil; accepted valid name Illustr.
• Ceroplastes rhizophorae Hempel 1918: 201. Type data: BRAZIL: Sao Paulo State, Santos, on Rhizophora mangle.. Syntypes, female, Type depository: Sao Paulo: Museu de Zoologia, Universidade de Sao Paulo, Brazil; junior synonym (discovered by PerontSoGr2008, 164).
• Ceroplastidia grandis (Hempel, 1900); Granara de Willink 1999: 66. change of combination
• Ceroplastes grandis Hempel, 1900; Peronti, Sousa-Silva & de Willink 2008: 164. revived combination (previously published)

Common Names

• escama de cera grande PerontKo2022
• Large wax scale PerontKo2022
• Cochinilla cerosa PerontKo2022
• cochonilha-de-cera PerontKo2022

Ecological Associates

Hosts:

Families: 17 | Genera: 28

Foes:

Families: 6 | Genera: 8

Geographic Distribution

Keys

• PerontSoGr2008: pp.142-144 ( Adult (F) ) [Ceroplastes species of São Paulo, Brazil]
• Granar1999: pp.59 ( Adult (F) ) [Argentina]

Remarks

• Systematics: C. grandis is similar to C. agrestis, but can be separated from C. agrestis because the first has eight segments in the antenna (six in C. agrestis) and also by the presence of denticles in the claw (absent in C. agrestis).(Peronti et al., 2008). C. grandis is also similar to C. glomeratus Peronti, that has the sclerotized area of ​​the caudal process with a broad base extending on the back, at least to the midline of the body; while the sclerotized C. grandis is generally circular or elongated, smaller directed towards back, and does not extend over the middle area of the dorsum. (Decuyper, et al., 2020)
• Structure: Photo colour of adult female by Peronti et al. (2008). The adult female body is oval, pink or brown. It darkens the older the specimen is. The body has a concavity in the ventral part that serves to contain the eggs and has a conical caudal process with the apex directed backwards. The antennae has eight segments; segments III and V are longer than the rest, and segments III and IV do not have setae. There is a pair of interanthannel setae. Legs with elongated digitigules on the tarsi, with apical broadening.
• General Remarks: Description and illustration of the adult female given by Granara de Willink (1999) and by Peronti et al. (2008).

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