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Ceroplastes galeatus Newstead, 1911 (Coccidae: Ceroplastes)

Nomenclatural History

• Ceroplastes galeatus Newstead 1911: 95. Type data: UGANDA: Entebbe, on undetermined plant.. Syntypes, female, Type depository: Curitiba: Departamento de Zoologia, Setor de Ciencias Biologicas, Universidade Federal do Parana, Brazil; London: The Natural History Museum, England, UK; accepted valid name Notes: Lectotype female designated in Hodgson & Peronti, 2012: Uganda: right label: Colonial Office / Ent. Res. Comm. (T.A.) / 1804 / Entebbe / 10/VIII/10 / BM 1945, 121; left label: Ceroplastes / galeatus / Newstead / Cotype females (BMNH): 1/1 (fair-poor, dorsum and venter separated).

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Families: 1 | Genera: 1

Geographic Distribution

Keys

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

Remarks

• Systematics: The adult female of C. galeatus initially appears similar to several other species in the C. rusci-group but differs in: (i) having no ventral tubular ducts in the cephalic region; (ii) almost no tibio-tarsal articulatory scleroses; (iii) the distribution of the stigmatic setae, with the largest lying within the group (i.e., not the most dorsal seta); (iv) in the shortness of antennal segment III, and (v) stigmatic setae not meeting between clefts. Other species in the C. rusci-group that lack tubular ducts in the cephalic region are C. singularis, C. balachowskyi and C. ghesquierei. C. singularis differs in having stigmatic setae along entire margin, C. balachowskyi differs in having a very large mid-dorsal clear area and C. ghesquierei is very similar but has many more stigmatic setae which almost meet between the clefts. (Hodgson & Peronti, 2012)
• Structure: Unmounted material. "Test of adult female - wax hard; creamy white or dusky yellowish white; roughly hemispherical; divided into distinct plates; dorsum with a central dark nuclear spot situated in a deep depression, the latter extending as a narrow groove as far as the region of the anal lobes; lateral plates separated by dark depression lines; lateral margins over the stigmatic clefts projecting considerably beyond the hemispherical portion, in the form of 2 peak-like extensions, on both surfaces of which are the opaque white stigmatic bands; area surrounding the anal orifice almost denuded, so that the colour of the insect is visible. Width 4.5-5.0 mm, length 4.0-4.5 mm." (Newstead, 1911). Mounted material. Body elongate oval, probably rather convex, with shallow, stigmatic clefts; distinctness of dorsal tubercles uncertain. Caudal process short and stout, pointing more or less vertically. Length 2.7-3.5 mm, total width of mounted specimen 1.75–2.5 mm; width of venter 1.5-1.65 mm. (Hodgson & Peronti, 2012)
• Biology: Biology and pest status on coffee presented by Le Pelley (1968).
• Economic Importance: Biology and pest status on coffee presented by Le Pelley (1968).
• General Remarks: Description and illustration of adult female by Newstead (1911).

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