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Ceroplastes stenocephalus De Lotto, 1961 (Coccidae: Ceroplastes)

Nomenclatural History

• Ceroplastes stenocephalus De Lotto 1961b: 320. Type data: KENYA: Magadi, on Acacia sp.. Holotype, female, Type depository: London: The Natural History Museum, England, UK; accepted valid name
• Gascardia stenocephala (De Lotto, 1961); De Lotto 1965a: 206. change of combination
• Ceroplastes stenocephalus De Lotto, 1961; Hodgson & Peronti 2012. emendation that is justified Notes: Gascardia is a junior synonym of Ceroplastes

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Families: 1 | Genera: 1

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Remarks

• Systematics: The adult female of C. stenocephalus is very distinctive, with the broad group of densely packed, narrow, sharply-conical setae in each stigmatic cleft. Other diagnostic characters are: (i) the size and position of the caudal process; (ii) the absence of clear areas on the dorsum; (iii) dorsal setae quite large and sharply-spinose; (iv) antennae 7 or 8 segmented; (v) loculate microducts smaller than width of basal socket of dorsal setae, and (v) ventral tubular ducts absent from cephalic region. (Hodgson & Peronti, 2012)
• Structure: Unmounted material. "Tests crowded and fused together so as to form an indistinct mass of creamy-yellow wax, suffused with a pinkish tinge; wax rather hard." (De Lotto, 1961b). Mounted material. Body roundly oval and convex, with distinct, quite deep, stigmatic clefts; dorsum without lateral tubercles. Caudal process large but probably not very convex, set almost medially on dorsum. Body length 2.2-2.25 (1.9-2.5) mm, width across abdomen 2.07-2.08 (1.8-2.4) mm; caudal process 0.87-1.0 mm long and 1.17-1.23 mm wide. Hodgson & Peronti, 2012)
• General Remarks: Detailed description and illustration in Hodgson & Peronti, 2012.

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