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Kermes cockerelli Ehrhorn, 1898 (Kermesidae: Kermes)

Kermes cockerelli Ehrhorn 1898a: 185. Type data: UNITED STATES: California, Mountain View, on Quercus lobata. Syntypes, female and first instar, Type depository: Washington: United States National Entomological Collection, U.S. National Museum of Natural History, District of Columbia, USA; accepted valid name Notes: Baer & Kosztarab (1985: 173) refer to paralectotypes, but not to a lectotype. It seems that no lectotype was designated. In addition to the ten slides of labeled type material at USNM, there are three slides with matching data but not labeled as types from the Ehrhorn Collection. Baer & Kosztarab also state there are type slides at VPIC and UCDC.
Coccus cockerelli (Ehrhorn, 1898); Cockerell 1929b: 150. change of combination
Talla cockerelli (Ehrhorn, 1898); Lindinger 1933a: 143. change of combination Notes: Morrison & Morrison, 1966 synonymized the genus Talla von Heyden with Kermes Boitard creating the combination Kermes cockerelli.

Families: 1 | Genera: 1

Families: 2 | Genera: 3

Countries: 1

BaerKo1985: pp.141 ( First instar ) [First instars of Nearctic Kermes]
BaerKo1985: pp.142 ( Adult (M) ) [Second instar males of Nearctic Allokermes and Kermes]
BaerKo1985: pp.144 ( Adult (F) ) [Second instar females of Nearctic Kermesidae]
BaerKo1981: pp.233 ( First instar ) [First instars of the Kermes concinnulus group]
MacGil1921: pp.197 ( Adult (F) ) [Species of Kermes]
Cocker1900c: pp.44 ( Adult (F) ) [North American Kermes]

Systematics: Second-instar females of K. bytinskii and K. quercus have 5 or 6- segmented antennae, and short, 3-segmented legs; these characters are shared with the second-instar females of the Nearctic K. cockerelli Ehrhorn, K. concinnulus Cockerell and K. rimarum Ferris (Baer & Kosztarab, 1985).
Structure: Adult female is deeply segmented, light brown in color, with red eyes (Ehrhorn, 1898a).
General Remarks: Detailed description of first instar, second instar male and female by Baer & Kosztarab (1985).