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Ceroplastodes dugesii Signoret

Description

Ceroplastodes dugesii (Signoret)

Lecanopsis dugesii Signoret, 1886: XXXIX.

Inglisia nivea Cockerell, 1893a: 160. Nomen nudum.

Fairmairia (Ceroplastodes) nivea Cockerell; Cockerell, 1893b: 350.

Ceroplastodes daleae Cockerell, 1894:13.

Ceroplastodes dugesii (Lichtenstein and Signoret): Fernald, 1903: 164; Avasthi and Shafee, 1991:1.

Ceroplastodes deani Lawson, 1917: 203.

Ceroplastodes dugesii (Signoret); Ben-Dov, 1993: 61; Hodgson, 1994: 167; Williams and Hodges, 1997: 144; Hodges and Williams, 2003: 496.

Material studied: Mexico, Hidalgo, road to Querétaro, 2265m ASL, 23.ix.2004, P. Fontana (DEAE, No. 1191): 8 adult females, 4 3rd -instar females, prepupa and pupa (DEAE: No. 1191); also No. 1191: 2 adult females, 3 3rd -instar females, 1 2nd -instar female, 2 2nd -instar males, 6 1st -instar nymphs (BMNH); Mexico, Cohauila, 1.vii.2005, P. Fontana (DEAE, No. 1194): 16 3rd -instar females, 4 2nd -instar females, 18 2nd -instar males, 18 1st -instar nymphs (DEAE).

Notes

Published as part of Pellizzari, Giuseppina, Hodgson, Christopher & Rainato, Alessio, 2008, Redescription of the adult female and 1 - instar nymph of Ceroplastodes dugesii (Signoret, 1886) (Hemiptera: Coccidae) and description of the other immature stages, pp. 43-59 in Zootaxa 1672 on page 44, DOI: 10.5281/zenodo.180213

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Additional details

Biodiversity

Scientific name authorship
Signoret
Kingdom
Animalia
Phylum
Arthropoda
Order
Hemiptera
Family
Coccidae
Genus
Ceroplastodes
Species
dugesii
Taxon rank
species

References

  • Cockerell, T. D. A. (1893 a) Notes on some Mexican Coccidae. Annals and Magazine of Natural History (ser. 6), 12, 160.
  • Cockerell, T. D. A. (1893 b) Three new Coccidae from the arid region of North America. The Entomologist, 26, 350 - 352.
  • Avasthi R. K. & Shafee S. A. (1991) Three species of Ceroplastodes Cockerell (Homoptera: Coccidae). Indian Journal of Systematic Entomology, 8, 1 - 6.
  • Ben-Dov, Y. (1993) A Systematic Catalogue of the Soft Scale Insects of the World (Homoptera: Coccoidea: Coccidae).
  • Hodgson, C. J. (1994) The Scale Insect Family Coccidae. An Identification Manual to Genera. CAB International, Wallingford, U. K., 639 pp.
  • Williams, M. L. & Hodges, G. (1997) Taxonomic characters - Nymphs. In: Y. Ben-Dov and C. J. Hodgson (Eds), World Crop Pests. Soft Scale Insects, Their Biology, Natural Enemies and Control. Vol. 7 A. Elsevier, Amsterdam, 143 - 156.
  • Hodges, G. & Williams, M. L. (2003) Description of the first-instar nymphs of the Cardiococcinae (Hemiptera: Coccidae). Journal of Entomological Sciences, 38 (4), 494 - 501.