Steatococcus, Ferris, 1921

Watson, Gillian W., 2022, Towards identification of the scale insects (Hemiptera: Coccomorpha) of continental Africa: 2. Checklists and keys to six archaeococcoid families, Zootaxa 5105 (3), pp. 301-356 : 334

publication ID

https://doi.org/ 10.11646/zootaxa.5105.3.1

publication LSID

lsid:zoobank.org:pub:187B04D7-4C35-4E27-9B2D-A616BF59F380

DOI

https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.6343202

persistent identifier

https://treatment.plazi.org/id/03D687D0-FF87-987B-19E8-CE1DFD1CE47E

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scientific name

Steatococcus
status

 

Steatococcus View in CoL ” hystrix Gavrilov-Zimin & Stekolshikov

The genus Steatococcus is a junior synonym of Crypticerya , a Neotropical genus ( Unruh & Gullan 2008). The correct generic placement of the African species “ Steatococcus ” hystrix ( Fig. 13 View FIGURE 13 ) therefore requires further research. It is close to Gigantococcus in possessing compound multilocular pores on the body margins and ventral submargins, 11 antennal segments, 3 pairs of abdominal spiracles, 3 circuli and a marsupium, and in lacking open-centre pores. It differs from all other African Iceryini in having numerous thick spiniform setae on the dorsum; in life, the body is evenly covered with soft, loose wax. The species is only known from Mali on Combretum glutinosum (Combretaceae) ( Gavrilov-Zimin & Stekolshikov 2018).

Kingdom

Animalia

Phylum

Arthropoda

Class

Insecta

Order

Hemiptera

Family

Margarodidae

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