Valid Names Results

Waxiella egbara (Cockerell, 1899) (Coccidae: Waxiella)

Nomenclatural History

• Ceroplastes egbarum Cockerell 1899g: 127. Type data: NIGERIA: near Abeokuta, on Mimosa sp.. Syntypes, female, Type depository: London: The Natural History Museum, England, UK; Washington: United States National Entomological Collection, U.S. National Museum of Natural History, District of Columbia, USA; accepted valid name Notes: Cockerell (1899g) was published in the May (1899) issue of The Entomologist. Pamela Gilbert (Librarian, BMNH), informed in a letter (30.xi.1981) to Yair Ben-Dov, that the May (1899) issue was received in BMNH Library on May, 1899.
• Ceroplastes africanus cristatus Green 1899b: 190. Type data: SOUTH AFRICA: Natal, host plant not indicated.. Syntypes, female, Type depository: London: The Natural History Museum, England, UK; junior synonym (discovered by Fernal1903b, 151). Notes: Green (1899b) was issued in the September (1899) issue of The Ann & Magazine nat. Hist.. Pamela Gilbert (Librarian, BMNH), informed in a letter (30.xi.1981) to Yair Ben-Dov, that the September (1899) issue was received in BMNH Library on October, 1899.
• Ceroplastes egbarum fulleri Cockerell & Cockerell in Cockerell 1902g: 113. Type data: SOUTH AFRICA: Natal, Coast of Natal, on Acacia sp. and Mimosa sp.. Syntypes, female, Type depository: Washington: United States National Entomological Collection, U.S. National Museum of Natural History, District of Columbia, USA; junior synonym (discovered by HodgsoPe2012, 203).
• Ceroplastes cristatus Green, 1899; Fernald 1903: 151. Type depository: Curitiba: Departamento de Zoologia, Setor de Ciencias Biologicas, Universidade Federal do Parana, Brazil; change in status (level)
• Ceroplastes ugandae Newstead 1911: 94. Type data: UGANDA: on 'Amakebe'.. Syntypes, female, Type depository: London: The Natural History Museum, England, UK; junior synonym (discovered by HodgsoPe2012, 203).
• Ceroplastes zonatus Newstead 1917a: 32. Type data: SOUTH AFRICA: Locality and host plant no indicated.. Syntypes, unknown, Type depository: London: The Natural History Museum, England, UK; junior synonym (discovered by HodgsoPe2012, 203).
• Ceroplastes egbarum rhodesiensis Hall 1931: 294. Type data: ZIMBABWE: Bulawayo and Hunters Road, on undetermined plant.. Syntypes, female, Type depository: London: The Natural History Museum, England, UK; junior synonym (discovered by HodgsoPe2012, 203).
• Gascardia egbara rhodesiensis (Hall, 1931); De Lotto 1965: 181. change of combination requiring emendation of specific epithet for agreement in gender
• Ceroplastes martinoi Almeida 1969: 141. Type data: ANGOLA: Bruco, on undetermined plant.. Syntypes, female, Type depository: Lisbon: Coleccoes do Centro de Zoologia do Instituto de Investigacao Cientifica Tropical, Portugal; junior synonym (discovered by HodgsoPe2012, 203).
• Waxiella egbarum (Cockerell, 1899); De Lotto 1971: 148. change of combination
• Waxiella egbarum fulleri (Cockerell & Cockerell in Cockerell, 1902); De Lotto 1971: 148. change of combination
• Waxiella egbarum rhodesiensis (Hall, 1931); De Lotto 1971: 148. change of combination
• Waxiella ugandae (Newstead, 1911); De Lotto 1971: 148. change of combination
• Waxiella zonata (Newstead, 1917); De Lotto 1971: 148. change of combination
• Waxiella martinoi (Almeida, 1969); Almeida 1973: 7. change of combination
• Waxiella africanus cristatus (Green, 1899); Ben-Dov 1986: 166. change of combination
• Waxiella egbarum fulleri; Ben-Dov 1986: 166. subsequent use Notes: Incorrect citation of "Cockerell" as author.
• Waxiella egbara (Cockerell, 1899); Ben-Dov 1993: 341, 512. emendation that is justified
• Waxiella egbara fulleri (Cockerell & Cockerell in Cockerell, 1902); Ben-Dov 1993: 342, 512. emendation that is justified
• Waxiella egbara rhodesiensis (Hall, 1931); Ben-Dov 1993: 342, 512. emendation that is justified

Common Names

Ecological Associates

Hosts:

Families: 5 | Genera: 15

Associates:

Families: 1 | Genera: 2

Geographic Distribution

Keys

• HodgsoPe2012: pp.198-199 ( Adult (F) ) [Key to adult females in the Waxiella africana-group (excluding W. erithraeus (Leonardi) and W. mimosae neghellii (Bellio)).]
• HodgsoWiGi2009: pp.102-104 ( Adult (F) ) [Ceroplastes species of South Africa]

Remarks

• Systematics: Ceroplastes(Waxiella) africana var. cristata was synonymised with W. egbara by Fernald (1903). In addition, Hodgson & Peronti, 2012, synonymized the following with W. egbara: Ceroplastes (Waxiella) egbarum var. fulleri Cockerell & Cockerell, Ceroplastes (Waxiella) egbarum var. rhodesiensis Hall, Ceroplastes (Waxiella) martinoi (Almeida), Ceroplastes (Waxiella) ugandae (Newstead) and Ceroplastes (Waxiella) zonatus Newstead.
• Structure: Unmounted material. "Female test broadly ovate in outline, highly convex; marginal plates very faintly indicated, but apparently without nuclear spots; dorsal plate very large, with a central nuclear spot of white wax; cephalic margin slightly clypeate; lateral margins in very old examples with a pronounced foot-like extension from each stigmata, from which extends a thick white waxen appendage. In the young forms, the foot-like extension is wanting, but the white waxen appendages are always present and always porrected. Colour creamy white, suffused with very pale brown; dorsal plates surrounded by a patch of dull flesh-colour. In very old examples, the zone of colour extends to the margins and is a shining madder-brown to piceous colour. On the removal of the outer surface of the test with chloroform, it is seen to be divided into seven areas by pale coloured lines: a central polygonal area, corresponding to the area occupied by the dorsal plate, from the angles of which radiate to the margin single lines marking off the areas of the lateral and cephalic plates." "Female adult (denuded of the test). Ovate, cephalic margin clypeate; dorsum low and wrinkled; with 2 large bilateral extensions, both longitudinally striated; the space between these extensions of the body wall and the margin markedly constricted. Dorsum with a large keel-like process. Caudal process very short and conical. Stigmatic clefts deep." (Description of W. zonata, Newstead, 1917a). Hodgson (1969) illustrates the waxy test and the adult female with the wax removed (of W. zonatus). Mounted material. Body elongate oval, probably quite convex, with distinct, shallow, stigmatic clefts; dorsum without distinct tubercles. Stigmatic setae of 2 types, sharply-spinose setae along margin and conical setae in a roundly oval group on dorsum. (Hodgson & Peronti, 2012)
• General Remarks: Good description and illustration of adult female by Hodgson (1969). Based on the above records compiled by Hodgson & Peronti, 2012, there have been many misidentifications of Waxiella species in the past and the list of countries and host plants given in ScaleNet has been revised. Their study suggests that W. egbara has been recorded from Angola, Côte d’Ivoire, Democratic Republic of the Congo, Gabon, French West Africa [Burkino Faso?], Kenya, Malawi, Namibia, Nigeria, South Africa, Tanzania, Uganda and Zimbabwe within the Afrotropical Region and from Saudi Arabia. The above records are all on Fabaceae: Acacia spp., Albizia lebbek, Brachystegia spiciformis, Cajanus indicus, Dalbergia armata, Mimosa sp., Samanea saman, Prosopis juliflora and wattle, but Hodgson (1969a) also included Bidens bipinnata (Asteraceae) and Hall (1931) mentioned Melia azedarach (Meliaceae).

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