Valid Names Results

Waxiella gwaai (Hodgson, 1969) (Coccidae: Waxiella)

Nomenclatural History

• Gascardia gwaai Hodgson 1969: 28. Type data: ZIMBABWE: At the Bulawayo - Victoria Falls Road near Wankie Game Reserve, on Baphia massaiensis subsp. obovata.. Holotype, female, Type depository: London: The Natural History Museum, England, UK; accepted valid name
• Waxiella gwaai (Hodgson, 1969); Ben-Dov 1986: 166. change of combination

Common Names

Ecological Associates

Hosts:

Families: 1 | Genera: 1

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)).]

Remarks

• Systematics: W. gwaai would appear to belong to the C. africana-group of Waxiella in having: (i) sharplyspinose dorsal setae; (ii) large groups of conical stigmatic setae, and (iii) each stigmatic cleft becoming sclerotised at maturity. It differs from all others in this species-group in the complete absence of ventral tubular ducts. (Hodgson & Peronti, 2012)
• Structure: Unmounted material. "The wax covering the adult female was very white and soft, and the outside was cracked and dried out, possibly due to the high temperatures in the area. At the points where the stigmatic bands reached the margin, the edges were expanded into a finger of wax standing out from the margin. The insect, once the waxy test was removed, was flattish, flesh coloured, almost round, with a distinctive mid-dorsal ridge, and with a cephalic and three lateral processes. The caudal process was rather small for the insect’s size, and was directed upwards at an angle of about 45 degrees. With the waxy test, the specimen was 12 mm long, 10 mm wide, and 7 mm high" (Hodgson, 1969). Mounted material. Body almost round, quite convex, with distinct, shallow, stigmatic clefts; dorsum with small tubercles. Stigmatic setae of 2 types; conical setae in a roundly oval group surrounded by a fairly wide area of sclerotisation. Caudal process short and stout, about 0.7 mm long (but broken), 0.93 mm wide. Body length 5 mm, width 4.5 mm. (Hodgson & Peronti, 2012)
• General Remarks: Good description and illustration of adult female by Hodgson (1969).

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