Species Antecerococcus mirandae (Lambdin, 1987)

Museums

Regional Maps

• Cerococcus mirandae Lambdin, P.L. 1987. Cerococcus mirandae (Homoptera: Coccoidea: Cerococcidae) a new species of scale insect from Australia. Annals of the Entomological Society of America 80: 100-102 [100].

Generic Combinations

• Antecerococcus mirandae (Lambdin, 1987). —
  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 [133]

Distribution

States

Western Australia

IBRA and IMCRA regions

IBRA

WA: Avon Wheatbelt (AW), Carnarvon (CAR), Central Kimberley (CK), Coolgardie (COO), Central Ranges (CR), Dampierland (DL), Esperance Plains (ESP), Gascoyne (GAS), Gibson Desert (GD), Geraldton Sandplains (GS), Great Sandy Desert (GSD), Great Victoria Desert (GVD), Hampton (HAM), Jarrah Forest (JF), Little Sandy Desert (LSD), Mallee (MAL), Murchison (MUR), Northern Kimberley (NK), Nullarbor (NUL), Ord Victoria Plain (OVP), Pilbara (PIL), Swan Coastal Plain (SWA), Tanami (TAN), Victoria Bonaparte (VB), Warren (WAR), Yalgoo (YAL)

Ecological Descriptors

Sap-feeder.

ID Keys

(Lambdin, P.L., 1987) [102] (female; Cerococcus species of the Australian region)

GENERAL

Description and illustration by Lambdin, P.L. 1987. Cerococcus mirandae (Homoptera: Coccoidea: Cerococcidae) a new species of scale insect from Australia. Annals of the Entomological Society of America 80: 100–102.

SYSTEMATICS

Cerococcus mirandae is similar to C. froggatti, but is easily separated from the latter by the absence of leg stubs and the presence of 6-locular pores in transverse abdominal rows (see Lambdin, P.L. 1987. Cerococcus mirandae (Homoptera: Coccoidea: Cerococcidae) a new species of scale insect from Australia. Annals of the Entomological Society of America 80: 100–102).

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