Valid Names Results

Ceroplastes rufus De Lotto, 1966 (Coccidae: Ceroplastes)

Nomenclatural History

• Ceroplastes rufus De Lotto 1966b: 143. Type data: SOUTH AFRICA: Cape Province, Bitterfontein, on Ruschia sp.. Holotype, female, Type depository: Pretoria: South African National Collection of Insects, South Africa; accepted valid name
• Cerostegia rufa (De Lotto, 1966); De Lotto 1969b: 215. change of combination
• Ceroplastes Ceroplastes De Lotto, 1966; Ben-Dov 1993. revived combination (previously published) Notes: Cerostegia is a junior synonym of Ceroplastes

Common Names

Ecological Associates

Hosts:

Families: 1 | Genera: 1

Foes:

Families: 1 | Genera: 1

Geographic Distribution

Keys

• HodgsoWiGi2009: pp.102-104 ( Adult (F) ) [Ceroplastes species of South Africa]

Remarks

• Systematics: De Lotto (1966b) suggested that this species is close to C. rubens (Maskell) but it is not clear why he thought this. They are unique in having the following combination of characters: (i) roundly convex stigmatic setae extending around most of the margin, mainly in a double band, the more dorsal setae largest (C. singularis Newstead also has stigmatic setae all around margin but they are more sharply pointed and not in this arrangement); (ii) ventral tubular ducts in a sparse submarginal band (De Lotto (1966b) stated that their frequency varied greatly between specimens); submarginal bands of tubular ducts are also found in C. deceptrix, C. madagascariensis, and C. rusticus; (iii) the shape and structure of the anal process - with a small area of sclerotisation (but which might be much larger in older specimens), and with the body margin extending to the apex of the anal process; (iv) only 6 dorsal clear areas; (v) very reduced legs (also known in C. brevicauda, C. destructor, C. luteolus, C. reunionensis and C. rubens), (vi) rather pointed dorsal setae, and (vii) 7- or 8-segmented antennae (although some other specimens might not have complete pseudoarticulations and thus appear 6 segmented). (Hodgson & Peronti, 2012)
• Structure: "Test of young adult female rounded, low convex, with dorsal and lateral plates poorly marked; colour reddish brown with a large elongate opaque white boss on the centre of the dorsum; wax very soft." (De Lotto, 1966b).
• General Remarks: Description and illustration of the adult female given by De Lotto (1966b; 1969b) and by Hodgson (1994a).

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