Antecerococcus mirandae (Lambdin) Lambdin, 2016

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 : 133

Antecerococcus mirandae (Lambdin) , comb. nov.

Cerococcus mirandae Lambdin 1987: 100 –102.

Type details. AUSTRALIA, Western Australia, Coolgardie, no host or date, G. Compere.

Note that Lambdin (1987) states that he deposited the holotype adf and some paratypes in ANIC and also 2 paratype slides in USNM. None of these are present in these collections. It is possible that they are present in University of Tennessee Insect Museum, Knoxville.

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

The adult female of A. mirandae can be diagnosed by the following combination of character-states: (i) only large 8-shaped pores present throughout dorsum anterior to cribriform plates; (ii) large 8-shaped pores on dorsum in whorls; (iii) a few large 8-shaped pores also present along margins of posterior abdominal segments; (iv) cribriform plates present in a submedial group of two on either side of abdominal segment IV, each with large micropores; (v) leg stubs absent; (vi) posterior stigmatic pore bands bifurcated; (vii) multilocular disc-pores restricted to sparse rows across segments V and VI, and submarginally in VII and VIII; (viii) ventral 8-shaped pores almost as large as those on dorsum, sparse along margins and in transverse bands across abdominal segments, and (ix) multilocular disc-pores with only six loculi.

The adult female of A. mirandae falls within Group C in the key to species of Antecerococcus , close to A. froggatti , also from Australia.