Valid Names Results

Coccus pseudotumuliferus Gullan & Kondo, 2018 (Coccidae: Coccus)

Nomenclatural History

• Morphospecies C. Heckroth, et al. 1998: 214. unavailable name that is placed
• Coccus “tumuliferus var. C. 84”, Heckroth, et al. 1998: 84. unavailable name that is placed
• Coccus near tumuliferus Quek 2017: 823. unavailable name that is placed
• Coccus pseudotumuliferus Gullan & Kondo 2018: 34. Type data: BORNEO: Sabah, Crocker Range, Tikolod, 650 m, ex hollow stem of Macaranga indistincta, 10/18/1999, by. S.-P. Quek. Holotype, female, by original designation Type depository: Kepong: Forest Research Institute of Malaysia, Selandgor, Malaysia; accepted valid name Notes: Paratypes: BORNEO: same data as holotype except ex M. pearsonii & M. glandibracteolata. Illustr.

Common Names

Ecological Associates

Hosts:

Families: 1 | Genera: 1

Associates:

Families: 1 | Genera: 1

Geographic Distribution

Keys

• GullanKoFi2018: pp.12 ( Adult (F) ) [Coccus species associated with Macaranga]

Remarks

• Systematics: urn:lsid:zoobank.org:act:73044BE2-763D-494F-AA8B-0CCEF0859A1D Adult females of C. pseudotumuliferus from Borneo can be distinguished from all other species of Coccus known from Macaranga by having the combination of (i) very short dorsal setae that can appear to be absent; (ii) 11, rarely 12, dorsal submarginal raised areas (humps) on each side of body plus 1 medially on head (most obvious on non-slide-mounted specimens); (iii) usually 12–20 setae per anal plate; and (iv) one or both apical antennal segments with a prolongation typically ≥10 μm long. Adult females of C. pseudotumuliferus are most similar to the adult females of C. caviramicolus, C. secretus and C. tumuliferus, which also have extremely short dorsal setae, but adult females of . pseudotumuliferus differ from those of C.. caviramicolus in having marginal setae mostly tapering to a point (fimbriate in C. caviramicolus); from C. secretus in having dorsal setae rounded at the apices (tapering to a point in C. secretus) and the dorsal setae of the anal plates much shorter (15–45 μm long in C. secretus as compared with 10–23 μm long in C. pseudotumuliferus); and from C. tumuliferus in the number of submarginal raised areas (8 on each side plus 1 medially on head in C. tumuliferus as compared with 11, rarely 12, in C. pseudotumuliferus), the shape of these raised areas (usually oval to elongate in C. pseudotumuliferus but more circular in C. tumuliferus), and the number of stigmatic setae (often only 1 per cleft in C. tumuliferus as compared with mostly 3 in C. pseudotumuliferus). (Gullan, et al., 2018) There is a lot of variation in the length and robustness of the marginal setae, which range from short (15–25 mm long) rather robust setae to longer (50–80 μm) slender and usuallly flagellate setae, even among females collected from different plants in a single locality. However the molecular data (Quek et al. 2017) strongly suggest that this variation in the marginal setae is not indicative of cryptic species because specimens that are identical in the nuclear genes sequenced can have different marginal setae. (Gullan, et al., 2018)
• Structure: In life, adult females varied from bright, shining pink to red to brownish-yellow, depending on collection locality and perhaps age. Adult females preserved in ethanol were bright pinkish red in color. Body broadly oval to almost circular, having a fairly definite arrangement of dorsal humps with the marginal row of humps most obvious and the central area of dorsum varying from having humps to almost flat; mature females covered dorsally with a brittle, whitish, glassy secretion, easily broken, moulded into elevations corresponding to those of the body, with secretion in the central part of dorsum variable among specimens from different collections. (Slide-mounted adult female body oval to circular, 1.7–3.6 (holotype 2.45) mm long, 1.2–3.2 (holotype 2.06) mm wide. (Gullan, et al., 2018)
• General Remarks: Detailed description and illustration in Gullan, et al., 2018)

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