Valid Names Results

Gigantococcus cajani (Newstead, 1917) (Monophlebidae: Gigantococcus)

Palaeococcus cajani Newstead 1917a: 7. Type data: NIGERIA: Agege, on pigeon pea [=Cajanus cajan], 1914, collected W.A. Lamborn.. Syntypes, female, Type depository: London: The Natural History Museum, England, UK; accepted valid name
Crypticerya cajani (Newstead, 1917); Vayssière 1926: 315. change of combination
Gigantococcus cajani (Newstead, 1917); Unruh & Gullan 2008: 37. change of combination
Crypticerya cajani (Newstead, 1917); Gavrilov-Zimin 2018: 175. revived combination (previously published) Notes: Gavrilov-Zimin rejected the genetic basis for separation of genera. Based on his morphological definition of genera, he reassigned several species within this family.

Families: 1 | Genera: 1

Countries: 1

Structure: Adult female, ovate and highly convex, waxy covering pure white, the arrangement very like that of Icerya euphorbiae Brain, but more or less distinct processes are traceable; these are arranged as follows: margin with 13-14 short and bluntly rounded processes packed closely together and coalescing behind: immediately above them is a well defined constriction, and over this a ridge with similar but more irregular processes; cephalic extremity with an irregular cluster of blunt processes (Newstead, 1917a).
General Remarks: Description and illustration of adult female by Newstead (1917a) and by Vayssiere (1926).