Antecerococcus echinatus (Wang & Qiu)

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 : 131-132

Antecerococcus echinatus (Wang & Qiu) , comb. nov.

Cerococcus echinatus Wang & Qiu 1986: 302 –305.

Phenacobryum echinatus ; Tang & Hao 1995: 237. Change of combination.

Type details. CHINA, Sichuan, on Alangium platanifolium (Cornaceae) , 25.v.1974, T.C. Wang. Depository: Institute of Zoology, Academia Sinica, Beijing, China: holotype adf + 2 paratype adff (not checked).

Comment. No material of this species has been seen during this study. In their English summary, Wang and Qiu (1986) described this species as follows: “This species is closely allied to C. stellatus (Maskell) . They can be separated by the following unique characteristics: [ A. echinatus has] 1) a few large 8-shaped pores around spiracles; 2) bilocular pores arranged in a submarginal band of the ventral surface; 3) the pores of the spiracular furrows clearly subdivided into large and small pores; 4) at base of each antenna without quinquelocular discpores; 5) stigmatic [probably refers to spiracles] rigid, densely chitinous and with a few quinquelocular discpores.” Wang and Qiu’s illustration is too poor to be able to see the significant anal lobe structures but, it is here considered to be a typical Antecerococcus species based on its similarity to A. stellatus (Maskell) .

Based on Wang and Qiu’s (1986) description, the adult female of A. echinatus falls within Group C in the key to species of Antecerococcus and keys out close to A. bryoides from the Pacific area and A. stellatus from Australia.