Valid Names Results

Ceroplastes longicauda Brain, 1920 (Coccidae: Ceroplastes)

Nomenclatural History

• Ceroplastes longicauda Brain 1920a: 31. Type data: SOUTH AFRICA: Natal Coast, on stems of native shrub.. Syntypes, female, Type depository: London: The Natural History Museum, England, UK; Rio de Janeiro: Fundacao Instituto Oswaldo Cruz, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil; accepted valid name Notes: Lectotype (designated in Hodgson & Peronti, 2012): South Africa, Left label: Natal Coast / July 1915 / C. Fuller / on stems of / native shrub / CKB 334 (SANC)
• Ceroplastes longicauda sapii Hall 1931: 296. Type data: ZIMBABWE: Embeza, on Sapium sp.. Syntypes, female, Type depository: London: The Natural History Museum, England, UK; junior synonym (discovered by HodgsoPe2012, 70-73).
• Gascardia longicauda (Brain, 1920); De Lotto 1965a: 202. change of combination
• Ceroplastes longicauda Brain, 1920; Hodgson & Peronti 2012: 27. revived combination (previously published) Notes: Gascardia was determined to be a junior synonym of Ceroplastes creating this combination.

Common Names

Ecological Associates

Hosts:

Families: 5 | Genera: 6

Geographic Distribution

Keys

• HodgsoPe2012: pp.64 ( Adult (F) ) [Key to adult females in the C. longicauda-group.]
• HodgsoWiGi2009: pp.102-104 ( Adult (F) ) [Ceroplastes species of South Africa]

Remarks

• Systematics: C. longicauda is very similar to C. bipartita, differing mainly in having a much longer caudal process. Nonetheless, it is speculated that these 2 species might prove to be synyonyms. (Hodgson & Peronti, 2012)
• Structure: "Adult female covered with a very thick layer of soft, white wax forming a test like a larger C. ceriferus specimen, i.e., a little more elongated than egbarum. Largest specimen seen measures 18 mm long, 11 mm wide and 12 mm high; marginal area prominent, forming a wide fold at the base of the central dome. The waxy appendages from the stigmatic clefts only project slightly from the main mass of the fold." "Adult female denuded of wax bright brown in colour, about 5 mm long without caudal process, which alone measures 3.5 mm. The body is ± star-shaped with 3 short lateral pointed spurs [tubercles] and 1 anterior. These are sharper and more prominent than on ceriferus. The dorsum is very convex, rising with straight sides to an acute point. The caudal process is exceedingly long, two thirds the length of the body, piceous, slightly tapering and extends in an horizontal direction." (Brain, 1920a). Mounted adult female rather roundly oval and convex; with distinct, quite deep, stigmatic clefts; dorsum with distinct lateral tubercles on younger specimens. Caudal process exceptionally long, pointing posteriorly and narrowing slightly towards apex. (Hodgson & Peronti, 2012)
• General Remarks: Detailed description and illustration in Hodgson & Peronti, 2012.

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