Species Cerococcus punctiferus (Green, 1901)
- Antecerococcus punctiferus Green, E.E. 1901. On some new species of Coccidae from Australia, collected by W.W. Froggatt, F.L.S. Proceedings of the Linnean Society of New South Wales 25: 559-562 [560].
Distribution
States
New South Wales, Queensland
IBRA
NSW, Qld: Australian Alps (AA), Brigalow Belt North (BBN), Brigalow Belt South (BBS), Broken Hill Complex (BHC), Channel Country (CHC), Central Mackay Coast (CMC), Cobar Peneplain (CP), Cape York Peninsula (CYP), Desert Uplands (DEU), Darling Riverine Plains (DRP), Einasleigh Uplands (EIU), Gulf Plains (GUP), Murray Darling Depression (MDD), Mitchell Grass Downs (MGD), Mount Isa Inlier (MII), Mulga Lands (ML), Nandewar (NAN), New England Tablelands (NET), NSW North Coast (NNC), NSW South Western Slopes (NSS), Riverina (RIV), Sydney Basin (SB), South East Corner (SEC), South Eastern Highlands (SEH), South Eastern Queensland (SEQ), Simpson Strzelecki Dunefields (SSD), Wet Tropics (WT)
Original AFD Distribution Data
Australian Region
- Australia
- New South Wales
- Queensland
Ecological Descriptors
Sap-feeder.
ID Keys
(Lambdin, P.L., 1987) [102] (female; Cerococcus species in the Australian region); (Hamon, A.B. & Kosztarab, M., 1979) [16] (first instar; Cerococcus first instars); (Lambdin, P.L. & Kosztarab, M., 1977) [45] (female; species of Cerococcus)
GENERAL
Detailed description and illustration by Lambdin, P.L. & Kosztarab, M. 1977. Morphology and systematics of the adult females of the genus Cerococcus (Homoptera: Coccoidea: Cerococcidae). Research Division Bulletin Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University, Blacksburg 128: 1–252. Hamon, A.B. & Kosztarab, M. 1979. Morphology and systematics of the first instars of the genus Cerococcus (Homoptera: Coccoidea: Cerococcidae). Bulletin of the Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University Research Division 146: 1–122 provide a detailed description and illustration of the first instar.
SYSTEMATICS
This species is close to Cerococcus paradoxus (see Hamon, A.B. & Kosztarab, M. 1979. Morphology and systematics of the first instars of the genus Cerococcus (Homoptera: Coccoidea: Cerococcidae). Bulletin of the Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University Research Division 146: 1–122).
STRUCTURE
Adult female is enclosed in a stout covering of reddish wax with four tufts of pale glassy white filaments. Male tests are slipper-shaped and with a yellow tint mottled with pale red. The adult female is irregularly oval. See Froggatt, W.W. 1915. A descriptive catalogue of the scale insects ('Coccidae') of Australia. Agricultural Gazette of New South Wales 26: 411–423, 511–516, 603–615, 754–764, 1055–1064.
General References
Lindinger, L. 1910. Die Cocciden-Literatur des Jahres 1908. Zeitschrift für Wissenschaftliche Insektenbiologie 6: 123-124, 151-156, 190-192 [124] (Antecerococcus punctifer: misspelling of species name; Cerococcus punctifer: misspelling of species name)
History of changes
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