Valid Names Results

Waxiella senegalensis (Marchal, 1909) (Coccidae: Waxiella)

Nomenclatural History

• Ceroplastes africanus senegalensis Marchal 1909c: 68. Type data: SENEGAL: Locality not given, on Acacia sp.. Syntypes, female, Type depository: Paris: Museum National d'Histoire naturelle, France; accepted valid name
• Waxiella africanus senegalensis (Marchal, 1909); Ben-Dov 1986: 166. change of combination
• Waxiella senegalensis (Marchal, 1909); Hodgson & Peronti 2012: 218-222. change in status (level)

Common Names

• senegalensis wax scale AbdRabEv2021

Ecological Associates

Hosts:

Families: 1 | Genera: 1

Associates:

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: Because the shape of the conical group of stigmatic setae and associated sclerotisation appears to be distinctive, Hodgson & Peronti, 2012, raised the subspecies Ceroplastes africanus senegalensis to specific rank in the genus Waxiella. Adult female W. senegalensis shows close similarities to those of W. africana but differ in having: (i) each group of stigmatic setae larger and generally with margins of cleft more heavily sclerotised, and with more abundant conical and sharply-spinose stigmatic setae, and (ii) perhaps in having very few (or sometimes no) ventral tubular ducts on the abdomen. In addition, W. senegalensis appears to be restricted to areas around the Sahara whereas W. africana is restricted to southern Africa.
• Structure: Unmounted material. Test creamy-yellow, rather variable in shape, very rounded and dome-shaped but with 2 depressions at the base corresponding to the spiracular furrows (stigmatic wax bands). Generally with a small nipplelike dome on dorsum. Devoid of wax, derm brown, with a well-developed cephalic arch. It differs from Ceroplastes (Waxiella) africanus Green in the Cape of Good Hope in having a less prominent caudal process, and stigmatic clefts with longer, sharper and more numerous stigmatic setae. (Rather free translation of Marchal, 1909b in Hodgson & Peronti, 2012).
• General Remarks: Detailed description and illustration in Hodgson & Peronti, 2012.

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