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Antecerococcus fradei (Castel-Branco, 1952) (Cerococcidae: Antecerococcus)

Nomenclatural History

• Cerococcus fradei Castel-Branco 1952: 27-32. Type data: MOZAMBIQUE: Tete, on unidentified host, 30/09/1948. Syntypes, unknown, by original designation Type depository: Lisbon: Coleccoes do Centro de Zoologia do Instituto de Investigacao Cientifica Tropical, Portugal; accepted valid name Illustr.
• Cerococcus multipororum Lambdin & Kosztarab 1977a: 152-155. Type data: MOZAMBIQUE: by Castel-Branco. Holotype, female, by original designation Type depository: Paris: Museum National d'Histoire naturelle, France; junior synonym (discovered by HodgsoWi2016, 49). Notes: C. multipororum: paratype ff: same data as holotype, 5/9adff (MNHN 6287-1: 5 adf; MNHN 6287-2: 1 adf; MNHN 6287-4: 1 adf; MNHN 6287-5: 1 adf; 6287-6: 1 adf). USNM: paratype f: collection data as above but with “sur” before Mozambique: 1/1adf. Illustr.
• Antecerococcus fradei (Castel-Branco, 1952); Hodgson & Williams 2016. change of combination

Common Names

Ecological Associates

Geographic Distribution

Keys

• HodgsoWi2016: pp.20-21 ( Adult (F) ) [Species of Antecerococcus]
• LambdiKo1977a: pp.45 ( Adult (F) ) [Species of Cerococcus] Key as: Cerococcus multipororum

Remarks

• Systematics: The present specimen of A. multipororum (and those seen by Lambdin & Kosztarab) also was collected in Mozambique by Castel-Branco. Castel-Branco (1952) provides several illustrations of parts of the derm of A. fradei, including the apex of the stigmatic pore bands. These illustrations are identical to the unique distribution (5–10 minute 8-shaped in a central clear area surrounded by spiracular disc-pores). It is also clear from these figures that the posterior stigmatic pore band is not branched, but that the single band represents the posterior half of an originally branched band. No other species of Antecerococcus was mentioned by Castel-Branco (1952) and no other species of Antecerococcus is known from Mozambique (Miller et al. 2015a). Both Lambdin & Kosztarab (1977) and the present authors have tried to trace the type series of A. fradei but without success but it here considered that the above specimen of C. multipororum is one of the syntype specimens of A. fradei collected by Castel-Branco. The adult female of A. fradei is superficially similar to those of A. oumeensis Hodgson & Williams from Ivory Coast, described as new below, but differs significantly as follows (character-states for A. fradei in brackets): (i) posterior stigmatic pore band bifurcated (not bifurcated); (ii) leg stubs present but small (absent); (iii) multilocular disc-pores present on metathorax (absent), and (iv) minute 8-shaped pores in each stigmatic pore band in a curved line through each apex (in a group medially). (Hodgson & Williams, 2016)
• Structure: This species has wide stigmatic furrows lined with small quinquelocular pores and large multilocular pores (Lambdin & Kosztarab, 1977a). Adult female body (C. multipororum) pyriform. Derm membranous with 8-shaped and simple disc pores, tubular ducts, and slender setae on dorsum (Lambdin & Kosztarab, 1977a). The description of Hodgson & Williams,(2016) differs from that of Lambdin & Kosztarab as follows: (i) posterior stigmatic bands have a distinct dog-leg (shown as straight in their figure), and (ii) the presence of the group of minute 8-shaped pores in a clear area medially in the apex of each pore band (not mentioned). The main characters diagnosing the adult female of A. fradei are: (i) dorsum with four sizes of 8-shaped pore; (ii) posterior abdominal segments with a line of six or seven largest 8-shaped pores along each margin; (iii) other 8-shaped pores abundant, forming a swirl-like pattern on dorsum; (iv) cribriform plates in a line of five or six across each side of abdominal segment IV; (v) leg stubs absent; (vi) posterior stigmatic pore bands not bifurcated; (vii) apex of each disc-pore band with a group of small 8-shaped pores in a clear area surrounded by disc-pores; (viii) multilocular disc-pores present across all abdominal segments but absent on metathorax; (ix) multilocular disc-pores also in a radial line extending mesad from each spiracle, and (x) antennae without a distinct setal cavity or cone-like apex.
• General Remarks: Best description and illustration by Castel-Branco (1952). Detailed description and illustration of junior synonym Cerococcus multipororum by Lambdin & Kosztarab (1977a). Detailed redescription and illustration in Hodgson & Williams, 2016)

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