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Mycetococcus corticis (Townsend & Cockerell, 1898) (Asterolecaniidae: Mycetococcus)

Cerococcus corticis Townsend & Cockerell 1898: 170. Type data: MEXICO: Sonora, Nogales, on bark of Quercus engelmanni. Syntypes, female, by original designation Type depository: Washington: United States National Entomological Collection, U.S. National Museum of Natural History, District of Columbia, USA; accepted valid name Notes: Ferris (1955a) moved this species from Coccidae to Mycetococcus in the Asterolecaniidae.
Mycetococcus corticis (Townsend & Cockerell, 1898); Ferris 1918b: 331. change of combination

Families: 1 | Genera: 1

Countries: 1

Structure: In life: Scale white, irregularly oval in form, seed-shaped or bead-shaped, covered wholly with a waxy secretion which has a felted, sometimes cottony, appearance on the surface. Length, 2 to 2 1/2 mm; width, about 1 3/5 mm; thickness, about 1 to 1/5 mm. Apparently stuck into the surface of the rough bark. Slide-mounted female: Elongate-globular, balloon-shaped, apodous and without antennae; anal cone chitinous, yellowish at base, brownish on terminal margins, wide and stout, conico-cylindric, about as long as basal width, less in diameter at discal end than at lase, the margin deeply notched on ventral and dorsal aspect, the notch reaching to about middle of length of cone, the margins with a row of strong bristly hairs curved at ends, the lateral lips externally rather thickly clothed with the same extending; down about 3/4 way to base of cone. Between bases of lateral lips of cone inside appears what is evidently a median tubercle though not distinct. Anal ring concealed, but the stout, long cylindriform hairs arising from it are conspicuous, six in number (3 pairs), and reach well beyond ends of lateral lips of cone. (Townsend & Cockerell, 1898)
General Remarks: Original description by Townsend & Cockerell (1898). Redescription by Ferris (1955a).