Valid Names Results

Ceroplastes elytropappi (Brain, 1920) (Coccidae: Ceroplastes)

Nomenclatural History

• Baccacoccus elytropappi Brain 1920: 127. Type data: SOUTH AFRICA: Cape Province, French Hoek, on Elytropappus rhinocerotis.. Syntypes, female, Type depository: Pretoria: South African National Collection of Insects, South Africa; accepted valid name Notes: Lectotype female (designated in Hodgson & Peronti, 2012): South Africa: top label: Baccacoccus / elytropappi Brain / on Elytropappus / rhinocerotis / French Hock, CPL, 1904 / Paratype (SANC 297): 1/1 (poor).
• Ceroplastes adustus De Lotto 1967b: 781. Type data: SOUTH AFRICA: Cape Province, Ceres, on Passerina sp.. Holotype, female, Type depository: Pretoria: South African National Collection of Insects, South Africa; junior synonym (discovered by DeLott1971, 141).
• Ceroplastes elytropappi (Brain, 1920); De Lotto 1971: 141. change of combination

Common Names

Ecological Associates

Hosts:

Families: 2 | Genera: 2

Foes:

Families: 1 | Genera: 2

Geographic Distribution

Keys

• HodgsoPe2012: pp.161 ( Adult (F) ) [Key to adult females of Ceroplastes tachardiaformis-group]
• HodgsoWiGi2009: pp.102-104 ( Adult (F) ) [Ceroplastes species of South Africa]

Remarks

• Systematics: Brain (1920a) originally placed this species in a new genus Baccacoccus because his specimens lacked a wax test. However, as De Lotto (1971) pointed out when synonymising Baccacoccus with Ceroplastes, very old wax scale insects frequently lose their wax. Within this species group, C. elytropappi differs from C. delottoi in having fewer than 20 stigmatic setae in each cleft, and from the other 2 species in lacking ventral tubular ducts in the cephalic region. (Hodgson & Peronti, 2012)
• Structure: Unmounted material. "Test of the immature adult females small, about 3 mm long, 2 mm wide; fairly highly convex, with a well-marked lateral depression; centre of the dome with a rather large whitish boss; wax soft, not divided into plates; colour light brown. Length [presumably of unmounted specimens] 1.1 mm, width 0.8 mm." (De Lotto (1967b) of C. adustus). Mounted material. Body broadly elliptical to roundly circular; lateral processes well developed. Length: 0.85-2.5, width: 0.6-1.5. (Hodgson & Peronti, 2012)
• General Remarks: Description and illustration of the adult female given by De Lotto (1967b) (as Ceroplastes adustus) and by Hodgson (1994a).

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