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Ceroplastes paucispinus De Lotto, 1970 (Coccidae: Ceroplastes)

Nomenclatural History

• Ceroplastes paucispinus De Lotto 1970b: 143. Type data: SOUTH AFRICA: Cape Province, Nossob Camp, on Acacia giraffae.. Holotype, female, Type depository: Pretoria: South African National Collection of Insects, South Africa; accepted valid name

Common Names

Ecological Associates

Hosts:

Families: 1 | Genera: 1

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: Within this species-group, C. paucispinus differs from C. delottoi in having fewer than 20 stigmatic setae in each cleft, and from the other 2 species as follows (character states for C. elytropappi and C. tachardiaformis in brackets): (i) presence of a well-developed tibio-tarsal articulation (absent), (ii) presence of tubular ducts in the cephalic region (absent in C. elytropappi), and (iii) absence of tubular ducts in abdomen (present). (Hodgson & Peronti, 2012)
• Structure: Unmounted material. "Living young adult females slightly to fairly strongly convex; wax test obscurely divided into plates, 3 bilateral, 1 cephalic and 1 dorsal, at the centre of each of which there is a small opaque white boss; dorsal submarginal depression shallow; wax rather soft in texture; general colouration dark brown." (De Lotto, 1970b). Mounted material. Body oval; lateral processes poorly developed; caudal process short and conical, heavily sclerotised. Body length 2.38 mm, width on slide 1.5 mm; width of venter 1.38 mm. (Hodgson & Peronti, 2012)
• General Remarks: Detailed description and illustration in Hodgson & Peronti, 2012.

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