Valid Names Results

Ceroplastes lamborni Newstead, 1917 (Coccidae: Ceroplastes)

Nomenclatural History

• Ceroplastes lamborni Newstead 1917a: 29. Type data: NIGERIA: Ibadan, on cacao and on climber on bush tree.. Syntypes, female and first instar, Type depository: London: The Natural History Museum, England, UK; accepted valid name
• Gascardia constricta De Lotto 1969a: 417. Type data: ANGOLA: Novo Redondo, on Elaeis guineensis.. Holotype, female, Type depository: Pretoria: South African National Collection of Insects, South Africa; accepted valid name
• Ceroplastes constricta (De Lotto, 1969); Ben-Dov 1993: 29. change of combination

Common Names

Ecological Associates

Hosts:

Families: 3 | Genera: 3

Geographic Distribution

Keys

• HodgsoPe2012: pp.171-172 ( Adult (F) ) [Key to adult females of Ceroplastes theobromae-group]

Remarks

• Systematics: Two major characters defining this species are the presence of 5 or more dorsal setae on each anal plate and claw denticles of distinctly different sizes. C. lamborni is rather similar to C. theobromae but has about half as many stigmatic setae and the latter species only has 3 or 4 dorsal setae on each anal plate. However, Hodgson & Peronti determined that it is just possible that these 2 species are synonyms.
• Structure: Unmounted material. C. lamborni. "Test of old adult female. Conical, more or less vertical in front and sloping upwards and forwards from the caudal process; sides with faint traces of three stigmatic plates. The four white stigmatic processes extending beyond the margin. Colour, in old dried examples, dusky red-brown and somewhat oily in appearance. Texture hard and almost as brittle as resin. Length 3.5 mm; height 3.5 mm" (Newstead, 1917a). Unmounted material. C. constricta. "The covering waxy test of all specimens examined was badly damaged in transit; in texture the wax was brittle and pure white in colour" (De Lotto, 1969a). Mounted material. Body probably rather roundly oval and convex, with distinct, quite deep, stigmatic clefts; presence of lateral tubercles unclear. Caudal process short and stout, probably directed rather upwards. Length about 2 to perhaps 3.5 (1.25-2.0) mm, width across venter about 1.25-2.25 (0.9-1.4) mm. Data in (..) refer to young C. constricta. (Hodgson & Peronti, 2012)
• General Remarks: Detailed description and illustration in Hodgson & Peronti, 2012.

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