Valid Names Results

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

Nomenclatural History

• Ceroplastes jos Hodgson & Peronti 2012: 68-70. Type data: NIGERIA: on "a large tree", 1/29/1962, by W.J. Hall. Holotype, female, by present designation Type depository: London: The Natural History Museum, England, UK; accepted valid name Notes: holotype specimen nearest species name label; misidentified as C. bipartitus Illustr.

Common Names

Ecological Associates

Geographic Distribution

Keys

• HodgsoPe2012: pp.64 ( Adult (F) ) [Key to adult females in the C. longicauda-group.]

Remarks

• Systematics: Ceroplastes jos is very similar to C. bipartitus but differs (characterstates of C. jos in brackets): (i) ventral tubular ducts very sparse, possibly even absent on some specimens and not present medially on abdomen (tubular ducts frequent and present medially on abdomen); (ii) loculate microducts mainly with 2 satellite loculi, those with 4 satellite loculi rare or absent (mainly 3 satellite loculi, pores with 4 satellite loculi present but scarce, those with 2 satellite loculi infrequent); (iii) with generally more than 30 stigmatic setae in each cleft, and each group about as wide as long (about 25 or fewer stigmatic setae in a group and each group much wider than long); (iv) dorsal setae about 2x longer than width of basal socket and sharply pointed (subequal to or only slightly longer than width of basal socket, and bluntly pointed), and (v) claw denticle obscure at most (present). C. jos is also very similar to C. sinoiae Hall but C. sinoiae is currently only known from southern Africa whereas C. jos is only known from Nigeria. C. jos differs from C. sinoiae in having (character-states of C. sinoiae in brackets): (i) a much narrower caudal process, more or less parallel-sided (more or less triangular and about as broad basally as long); (ii) seven clear areas, the medio-dorsal area obscure or absent (dorsal area present); (iii) each group of stigmatic setae about twice as wide as long (about as wide as long); (iv) ventral tubular ducts present medially on posterior abdominal segments (believed to be absent), (v) loculate microducts with 3 satellite loculi most abundant and pores with 4 satellite loculi present (pores with 2 satellite loculi most abundant, those with 4 loculi absent), and (vi) dorsal setae quite sharply pointed (blunter). (Hodgson & Peronti, 2012)
• General Remarks: Detailed description and illustration in Hodgson & Peronti, 2012.

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