Species Antecerococcus paradoxus (Maskell, 1889)

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Species Antecerococcus paradoxus (Maskell, 1889)

Eriococcus paradoxus Maskell, W.M. 1889. On some new South Australian Coccidae. Transactions of the Royal Society of South Australia 11: 101-111 [dated 1888] [104] [no valid record found for this taxon].
Type data:
Lectotype ANIC ♀, AUSTRALIA: South Australia.
Type host:
Pittosporum undulatum [PITTOSPORACEAE]
Cerococcus auranticus 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 [1055].
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].
Type data:
Lectotype BMNH ♀, AUSTRALIA: New South Wales, Bathurst.
Type host:
Pittosporum eugenioides [PITTOSPORACEAE]

Distribution

States

New South Wales, Queensland, South Australia, Victoria

IBRA and IMCRA regions (map not available)

IBRA

NSW, Qld, SA, Vic: Australian Alps (AA), Brigalow Belt South (BBS), Broken Hill Complex (BHC), Channel Country (CHC), Cobar Peneplain (CP), Central Ranges (CR), Darling Riverine Plains (DRP), Eyre Yorke Block (EYB), Finke (FIN), Flinders Lofty Block (FLB), Flinders (FLI), Gawler (GAW), Great Victoria Desert (GVD), Hampton (HAM), Kanmantoo (KAN), Murray Darling Depression (MDD), Mulga Lands (ML), Nandewar (NAN), Naracoorte Coastal Plain (NCP), New England Tablelands (NET), NSW North Coast (NNC), NSW South Western Slopes (NSS), Nullarbor (NUL), Riverina (RIV), Sydney Basin (SB), South East Coastal Plain (SCP), South East Corner (SEC), South Eastern Highlands (SEH), South Eastern Queensland (SEQ), Simpson Strzelecki Dunefields (SSD), Stony Plains (STP), Victorian Midlands (VM), Victorian Volcanic Plain (VVP)

Ecological Descriptors

Sap-feeder.

ID Keys

(Lambdin, P.L., 1987) [102] (female; Cerococcus species in 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)

STRUCTURE

Test of adult female is made of a thick coat of reddish orange wax with a funnel shaped apical tube, spots on its surface and four spine like tufts of pale yellow. Body form is oval. Male tests scattered amongst the female tests, which are pale, bright yellow mottled with some red. Adult female is dark reddish brown and broadly 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

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

Adult female resembles Eriococcus hoheriae (Maskell, 1899). 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 state that this species is close to Cerococcus punctiferus.