Species Antecerococcus bryoides (Maskell, 1894)

Museums

Regional Maps

• Planchonia bryoides Maskell, W.M. 1894. Further coccid notes with descriptions of several new species and discussion of various points of interest. Transactions and Proceedings of the New Zealand Institute 26: 65-105 [84].

  Type data:

   Syntype(s) NZAC ♀ (Though Lambdin & Kosztarab (1977a) state they examined paratypes, no evidence of a holotype can be found so the original type material must be considered syntypic), FIJI.

Generic Combinations

• Antecerococcus bryoides (Maskell, 1894). —
  Hodgson, C.J., & Williams, D.J. 2016. A revision of the family Cerococcidae Balachowsky (Hemiptera: Sternorrhyncha, Coccomorpha) with particular reference to species from the Afrotropical, western Palaearctic and western Oriental Regions, with the revival of Antecerococcus Green and description of a new genus and fifteen new species, and with ten new synonomies. Zootaxa 4091(1): 1-175 [130]

Distribution

States

New South Wales

IBRA and IMCRA regions

IBRA

NSW: Australian Alps (AA), Brigalow Belt South (BBS), Broken Hill Complex (BHC), Channel Country (CHC), Cobar Peneplain (CP), Darling Riverine Plains (DRP), Murray Darling Depression (MDD), 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)

Ecological Descriptors

Sap-feeder.

ID Keys

(Wang, T.C., 2001) [514] (key to Chinese species of Cerococcus); (Tang, F.T. & Hao, J., 1995) [235] (female; as Phenacobryum bryoides; species of Phenacobryum); (Wang, T.C., 1994) [248] (female); (Lambdin, P.L., 1987) [102] (female; Cerococcus species of the Australian region); (Hamon, A.B. & Kosztarab, M., 1979) [16] (first instar; Cerococcus first instars); (Lambdin, P.L. & Kosztarab, M., 1977) [44] (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 description and illustration of the first instar.

SYSTEMATICS

This species is close to C. theydoni and C. parahybensis (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

Test of adult female formed of a dull yellowish secretion, but is so thickly covered with secretionary matter which forms grey tufted filaments that it gives it a greyish brown tint. Test is irregularly oval, convex, and has a large anal opening. Male test is pale yellow, semi-transparent sometimes having a greyish tint. Adult female is dull yellow, broadly oval with elongated anal segment. 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

Balachowsky, A.S. 1932. Étude biologique des coccides du bassin occidental de la Méditerranée. Paris : P. Lechevalier & Fils 214 pp. LXVII. [34] (Cerococcus bryoïdes: misspelling of species name)

Ramakrishna Ayyar, T.V. 1919. Notes on new and unrecorded species of Indian Coccidae. Bulletin of the Agricultural Research Institute. Pusa 89: 91-99 [92] (Corococcus bryoides: misspelling of genus name)

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