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Octococcus gullanae Miller & Giliomee, 2016 (Pseudococcidae: Octococcus)

Octococcus gullanae Miller & Giliomee 2016: 124-126. Type data: SOUTH AFRICA: Northern Cape, Nieuwoudtville, 7/11/1961, on Lampranthus sp., by J.H. Giliomee. Holotype, female, by original designation Type depository: Pretoria: South African National Collection of Insects, South Africa; accepted valid name Notes: 1 paratype adult female from the same series (USNM) and 1paratype adult female from Oudtshoorn. [Western Cape Province] on ‘mesem’ [Mesembryanthemum], collector unknown, 3/?/1979. Lampranthus is a mesemb and belongs to the ice-plant family, Aizocaeae. Illustr.

Families: 1 | Genera: 1

Countries: 1

Systematics: This species is most similar to Octococcus africanus (character states of O. africanus given in brackets) but differs by having four or five pairs of cerarii (two), each cerarius with more than two conical setae (two), cerarii set away from body margin (near body margin), rims of oral-rim tubular ducts inconspicuous (conspicuous). (Miller & Giliomee, 2016)
Structure: Based on the morphology of the slide-mounted adult female we suspect that there are four or five lateral wax filaments. (Miller & Giliomee, 2016)
General Remarks: Detailed description and illustration in Miller & Giliomee, 2016.

MillerGi2016: description, distribution, host, illustration, key, morphology, structure, taxonomy, 124-126