Valid Names Results

Ceroplastes balachowskyi Hodgson & Peronti, 2012 (Coccidae: Ceroplastes)

Nomenclatural History

• Ceroplastes balachowskyi Hodgson & Peronti 2012: 101-103. Type data: GABON: Makokou, Ivindo, on unknown host, 7/19/1976 by A.S. Balachowsky. Holotype, female, by original designation Type depository: Paris: Museum National d'Histoire naturelle, France; accepted valid name Illustr.

Common Names

Ecological Associates

Geographic Distribution

Keys

• HodgsoPe2012: pp.100 ( Adult (F) ) [Key to adult females in the Ceroplastes rusci-group]

Remarks

• Systematics: In lacking tubular ducts in the cephalic region and in having abundant stigmatic setae around the margins, C. balachowskyi is superficially very similar to C. ghesquierei. It is easily separable due to the following combination of characters (those for C. ghesquierei in brackets): (i) dorsal setae on each anal plate in a different arrangement, with 2 large dorsal setae near inner margin (all large dorsal setae near posterior margin); (ii) dorsal clear area exceptionally large, extending laterally to dorsad to legs (much smaller), with many dorsal setae; (iii) stigmatic setae in each cleft rather variable in size, each group with 3–5 larger setae (only dorsal-most seta enlarged), and (iv) with many (8-18) marginal stigmatic setae along anterior margin between eyespots (0-2). It is also somewhat similar to C. singularis in having abundant stigmatic setae along the margins but these are also present along the posterior abdominal margins on C. singularis. C. balachowskyi is also very similar to C. galeatus, but the latter species lacks the large dorsal clear area, has only 0-2 stigmatic setae on anterior margin of head, and all stigmatic setae are similar apart from the 1 enlarged seta near apex of each group. Most Ceroplastes species with loculate microducts of the rusci-type also have wax-plate lines. These could not be detected on C. balachowskyi, probably because these lines are typically made up of loculate microducts with 2 or more satellite loculi, which are rare or perhaps sometimes absent on C. balachowskyi. (Hodgson & Peronti, 2012)
• Structure: Body rather roundly oval and probably fairly convex, with shallow stigmatic clefts; lateral tubercles indistinct or absent. Caudal process short and stout, probably directed rather upwards. Length of specimens 1.5-3.0 mm, width about 1.0-2.0 mm. (Hodgson & Peronti, 2012)
• General Remarks: Detailed description and illustration in Hodgson & Peronti, 2012.

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