Species Antecerococcus froggatti (Morrison & Morrison, 1927)

Museums

Regional Maps

• Cerococcus froggatti Morrison, H. & Morrison, E.R. 1927. The Maskell species of scale insects of the subfamily Asterolecaniinae. Proceedings of the United States National Museum 71: 1-67 [17].

  Type data:

   Holotype USNEC ♀, AUSTRALIA: New South Wales, Mittagong.

  Type host:

   Ozothamnus diosmifolius [ASTERACEAE]

Generic Combinations

• Antecerococcus froggatti (Morrison & Morrison, 1927). —
  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 [132]

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

(Lambdin, P.L., 1987) [102] (female; Cerococcus species of the Australian region); (Hamon, A.B. & Kosztarab, M., 1979) [17] (first instar; Cerococcus first instars); (Lambdin, P.L. & Kosztarab, M., 1977) [46] (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

Very close to Cerococcus stellatus (see Morrison, H. & Morrison, E.R. 1927. The Maskell species of scale insects of the subfamily Asterolecaniinae. Proceedings of the United States National Museum 71: 1–67).

STRUCTURE

Female test is reddish brown in color and has white waxy projections. Body is pear shaped (see 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.

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 Frogatti: misspelling of species name; Cerococcus puntiferus: misspelling of species name)

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