Valid Names Results

Waxiella subdenudata (Newstead, 1917) (Coccidae: Waxiella)

Nomenclatural History

• Ceroplastes subdenudatus Newstead 1917a: 30. Type data: UGANDA: Entebbe, on Acacia sp.. Lectotype, female, by subsequent designation (Hodgso1994a,604). Type depository: London: The Natural History Museum, England, UK; accepted valid name
• Gascardia subdenudata (Newstead, 1917); De Lotto 1967b: 784. change of combination
• Waxiella subdenudatus (Newstead, 1917); De Lotto 1971: 148. change of combination

Common Names

Ecological Associates

Hosts:

Families: 1 | Genera: 2

Geographic Distribution

Keys

• HodgsoPe2012: pp.226 ( Adult (F) ) [Key to adult females of the Waxiella subdenudata-group]
• HodgsoWiGi2009: pp.102-104 ( Adult (F) ) [Ceroplastes species of South Africa]

Remarks

• Systematics: W. subdenudata is extremely similar to W. subsphaerica. The main difference between these 2 species, is that all the marginal setae between the eyespots on the anterior margin of the head of W. subdenudata are short and blunt and there are no flagellate marginal setae in this area (although the submarginal setae elsewhere are flagellate), whereas the marginal setae between the eyespots on W. subsphaerica are all quite long, most are spinose but sharply pointed but a few are sometimes flagellate. Also, W. subdenudata does tend to have fewer stigmatic setae of both types but there is some overlap with the data for W. subsphaerica; in addition, the dorsal setae tend to be longer with convergent sides on W. subsphaerica, whereas they are shorter with more parallel sides on W. subdenudata. (Hodgson & Peronti, 2012)
• Structure: Mounted material. Body almost round; stigmatic clefts shallow and quite broad; derm membranous apart from caudal process; caudal process well developed but small and conical; lateral tubercles indistinct. Length 2.2-2.25 mm, width 2.0-2.1 mm.
• General Remarks: Good description and illustration of adult female by De Lotto (1967b, 1971), and by Hodgson (1994a).

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