Valid Names Results
Ceroplastes utilis Cockerell, 1893 (Coccidae: Ceroplastes)Nomenclatural History
- Ceroplastes utilis Riley & Howard 1892: 139. nomen nudum
- Ceroplastes utilis Cockerell 1893c: 83. Type data: GRAND TURK ISLAND: on undetermined tree or bush.. Lectotype, female, by subsequent designation (GimpelMiDa1974,67). Type depository: Washington: United States National Entomological Collection, U.S. National Museum of Natural History, District of Columbia, USA; accepted valid name
- Ceroplastes dozieri Cockerell & Bueker 1930: 7. Type data: HAITI: Sources Puantes, on Maytenus buxifolia.. Syntypes, female, Type depository: Washington: United States National Entomological Collection, U.S. National Museum of Natural History, District of Columbia, USA; junior synonym (discovered by GimpelMiDa1974, 67).
Common Names
- candle wax scale HamonWi1984
- Grand Turk wax-scale Cocker1895
Ecological Associates
Hosts:
Families: 6 | Genera: 7
- Acanthaceae
- Avicennia marina | GimpelMiDa1974
- Asteraceae
- Baccharis boliviensis | MarinLCi1995 | (= Pseudobaccharis boliviana)
- Flaveria bidentis | MarinLCi1995
- Bignoniaceae
- Catalpa longissima | GimpelMiDa1974
- Celastraceae
- Maytenus buxifolia | GimpelMiDa1974
- Myrtaceae
- Uromyrtus neomyrtoides | HamonWi1984 | (= Eugenia myrtoides)
- Rosaceae
- Crataegus | GimpelMiDa1974
Geographic Distribution
Countries: 5
- Cuba | MestreKo2018
- Haiti | PerezG2008
- Peru | MarinLCi1995
- Turks and Caicos Islands
- Grand Turk Island | Cocker1893c
- United States
- Florida | HamonWi1984
Keys
- Hodges2002b: pp.208 ( Adult (F) ) [Ceroplastes species of Florida]
- MarinLCi1995: pp.52 ( Adult (F) ) [Ceroplastes in Peru]
- HamonWi1984: pp.18 ( Adult (F) ) [USA, Florida ]
- GimpelMiDa1974: pp.19 ( Adult (F) ) [USA]
- Cocker1895: pp.7 ( Adult (F) ) [Grand Turk]
Remarks
- General Remarks: Description and illustration of the adult female given by Gimpel et al. (1974) and by Hamon & Williams (1984).
Illustrations
Citations
- BenDov1993: catalog, 59
- Cocker1893j: distribution, 254
- Cocker1894d: taxonomy, 311
- Cocker1895: distribution, host, taxonomy, 7
- Cocker1896b: distribution, 331
- CockerBu1930: description, distribution, host, illustration, taxonomy, 7
- Fernal1903b: catalog, 158
- GimpelMiDa1974: description, distribution, host, illustration, taxonomy, 67-70
- HamonWi1984: description, distribution, host, illustration, key, taxonomy, 34-37
- Hodges2002b: taxonomy, 208
- MarinLCi1995: description, distribution, host, illustration, key, 44
- MestreKo2018: distribution, 5
- PerezG2008: distribution, 212
- QinGu1995: taxonomy, 302
- QinGuBe1994: taxonomy, 541-549
- RileyHo1892a: taxonomy, 139
