Valid Names Results

Ceroplastes rusticus De Lotto, 1961 (Coccidae: Ceroplastes)

Nomenclatural History

• Ceroplastes rusticus De Lotto 1961b: 318. Type data: SOUTH AFRICA: Cape Province, Hartman's Kloof, on Selago glutinosa.. Holotype, female, Type depository: London: The Natural History Museum, England, UK; accepted valid name
• Gascardia rustica (De Lotto, 1961); De Lotto 1965a: 204. change of combination
• Ceroplastes rusticus De Lotto, 1961; Ben-Dov 1993. revived combination (previously published)

Common Names

Ecological Associates

Hosts:

Families: 1 | Genera: 1

Foes:

Families: 1 | Genera: 1

Geographic Distribution

Keys

• HodgsoPe2012: pp.40 ( ) [Key to adult females of C. deceptrix-group]
• HodgsoWiGi2009: pp.102-104 ( Adult (F) ) [Ceroplastes species of South Africa]

Remarks

• Systematics: C. rusticus De Lotto is most similar C. deceptrix but differs in having many more ventral tubular ducts submarginally plus some ducts medially on both the abdomen and posteriorly on the thorax. In addition, on C. rusticus, the clear areas dorsad to the stigmatic clefts appear to have coalesced into one large clear area on each side and there appears to be no clear areas latero-posteriorly on the abdomen, so that there are perhaps only 4 clear areas in all; C deceptrix has the normal 8 clear areas. (Hodgson & Peronti, 2012)
• Structure: Test of fully mature adult female dried in situ, highly convex, with a shallow mediodorsal depression carrying a minute elongate white boss; colour evenly pale yellow; wax fairly soft. Dimensions: up to 8 mm long; 7 mm wide and 5 mm high. (De Lotto, 1961).
• General Remarks: Description and illustration of the adult female given by De Lotto (1961b).

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