Valid Names Results

Ceroplastes lucidus Hempel, 1900 (Coccidae: Ceroplastes)

Nomenclatural History

• Ceroplastes lucidus Hempel 1900a: 465. Type data: BRAZIL: Sao Paulo, Ypiranga, on Baccharis dracunculifolia.. Syntypes, female, Type depository: Sao Paulo: Museu de Zoologia, Universidade de Sao Paulo, Brazil; accepted valid name
• Ceroplastes novaesi Hempel 1900a: 457. Type data: BRAZIL: Capoeira Grande, Campinas, Sao Paulo and Cachoeira, on Abutilon sp., Baccharis dracunculifloiae and Vernonia riedelii.. Syntypes, female, Type depository: Sao Paulo: Museu de Zoologia, Universidade de Sao Paulo, Brazil; junior synonym (discovered by PerontSoGr2008, 170).
• Ceroplastes novaesi mendozae Cockerell 1902i: 92. Type data: ARGENTINA: Mendoza, on pithy stems of an herbaceous plant.. Syntypes, female, Type depository: London: The Natural History Museum, England, UK; Sao Paulo: Museu de Zoologia, Universidade de Sao Paulo, Brazil; Washington: United States National Entomological Collection, U.S. National Museum of Natural History, District of Columbia, USA; junior synonym (discovered by Granar1999, 75).
• Ceroplastidia lucida (Hempel, 1900); Granara de Willink 1999: 71. change of combination
• Ceroplastidia novaesi (Hempel, 1900); Granara de Willink 1999: 75. change of combination

Common Names

Ecological Associates

Hosts:

Families: 7 | Genera: 20

Geographic Distribution

Keys

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

Remarks

• Structure: Colour photo of adult female by Peronti et al. (2008).
• General Remarks: Description and illustration of the adult female given by Hempel (1900a), Granara de Willink (1999) and by Peronti et al. (2008).

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