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Illovococcus Hodgson, 2021 (Coccidae)

Illovococcus Hodgson 2021: 61. Type species: Ceronema mobile Brain by original designation . accepted valid name

Systematics: Illovococcus is introduced to take Ceronema mobile, which is described in detail by De Lotto (1978). Illovococcus mobilis is only known from the original collection on Celastrus cordata near the Illovo river in Kwazulu-Natal, South Africa. It is immediately separable from other Coccidae in having the following combination of characters: (i) unusually-shaped dorsal tubular ducts; (ii) marginal setae divided along their length; (iii) only two stigmatic spines in each stigmatic cleft; (iv) each stigmatic cleft with sclerotised margins; (v) absence of ventral tubular ducts, and (vi) presence of very few multilocular disc-pores, restricted to around the vulva. Illovococcus appears to be related to either the Filippiinae or to the Eriopeltinae as defined by Hodgson (1994). Hodgson, 2021)
Structure: Body of live adult broad, flat, with dorsum almost entirely covered in white waxy filaments, those on margins long and coarse, those on dorsum short, fine, more or less curly and appearing densely matted and felted. (Hodgson, 2021)
General Remarks: Detailed description and illustration in Hodgson, 2021.