Antecerococcus lizeri

Chris J. Hodgson & Douglas J. Williams, 2016, (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), pp. 1-175 : 132-133

Antecerococcus lizeri (Granara de Willink), comb. nov.

Solenococcus haywardi Hayward 1941: 74 . Nomen nudum; discovered by Granara de Willink, 1996: 237. Cerococcus lizeri Granara de Willink 1996: 236–239.

Type details. ARGENTINA , Entre Rios, Concordia, on Schmidelia edulis = Allophylus edulis (Sapindaceae) . Depositories: Museo Nacional Bernardino Rivadavia, Argentina : holotype adf + 12 paratype adff. Colección de Instituto y Fundación Miguel Lillo, Argentina : 5 paratype adff. (not checked).

Note that Granara de Willink (1996) states that she deposited 4 paratype adff in BMNH and 5 paratype adff in USNM but these slides are not present Nov. 2015 (pers. obs. and Miller, pers. comm.).

Comment. No material of this species has been seen. Nonetheless, the presence of: (i) anteroventral sclerotizations on the anal lobes (as suggested in the figure): (ii) large 8-shaped pores in a line on each side of the posterior abdominal segments; (iii) abundant large 8-shaped pores throughout the dorsum; (iv) a setose seta ventrally near the apex of each anal lobe, and (v) the absence of strong setose setae along the inner margin of each anal lobe, indicates that this species belongs to Antecerococcus , as defined here.

Based on Granara de Willink’s (1996) illustration, the main character-states diagnosing A. lizeri appear to be: (i) large 8-shaped pores in swirls on dorsum apart from posterior abdominal segments; (ii) smaller 8-shaped pores present on dorsum of abdomen; (iii) about 15 large 8-shaped pores in a band on each side of posterior abdominal segments; (iv) cribriform plates in a submedial cluster on each side of about five segments, with most anterior pair of clusters on about prothorax and most posterior pairs of clusters on about abdominal segments II and III; (v) leg stubs absent; (vi) posterior stigmatic pore bands bifurcated; (vii) multilocular disc-pores present in a large group submarginally on either metathorax or abdominal segment II, a smaller group on about abdominal segment III and perhaps two on segment IV; (viii) multilocular disc-pores each with 10 loculi, and (ix) a few multilocular discpores present anterior to each spiracle. The adult female of A. lizeri is similar to that of A. badius but differs in having (i) some multilocular disc pores submarginally on anterior abdominal segments and metathorax (absent on A. badius ), and (ii) a band of larger 8-shaped pores along margins of posterior abdominal segments (very few or absent on A. badius ).

The adult female of A. lizeri falls within Group C in the key to species of Antecerococcus and, keys out close to A. badius and A.baccharidis , all from South America.