Cerococcus deklei Kosztarab & Vest

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 : 158-159

Cerococcus deklei Kosztarab & Vest

Cerococcus sp. Dekle 1962: 74. Unavailable name. Cerococcus deklei Kosztarab & Vest 1966: 369–374 .

Type details. UNITED STATES OF AMERICA, Florida, North Miami, on Hibiscus sp., 18.xii. 1963, K. Hickman. Depository: USNM: holotype adf + many paratype adff.

Material examined: BAHAMAS, New Providenca, Church Gardens, Hibiscus sp. ( Malvaceae ), 24.viii. 2001, ENT/NP/ 159 /01 (BMNH): 1 / 3 adff (g); as previous but dated 4.ix. 2001 (BMNH): 4 / 4 adff (f). JAMAICA, St. Andrews, on Hibiscus sp., 4.iv. 1973, J.R.R. Suah (BMNH): 1 / 3 adff (g).

Comment. This is one of the Holarctic species that has a lattice-like pattern of 8 -shaped pores on the dorsum and is well described by Kosztarab and Vest ( 1966) and Lambdin and Kosztarab ( 1977). The adult female of C. deklei is characterised by the following combination of character-states: (i) 8 -shaped pores on dorsum in a latticelike pattern; (ii) 8 -shaped pores on dorsum of two sizes, both quite small; (iii) larger pores restricted to near stigmatic pore bands; smaller 8 -shaped pores frequent elsewhere on dorsum; (iv) cribriform plates present in a submedial group of 5–16 on each side of abdominal segment IV; (v) tubular ducts of only one size present; (vi) multilocular disc-pores absent on abdominal segments and metathorax, but occasionally present associated with spiracular disc-pores; (vii) stigmatic pore bands bifurcated; (viii) stigmatic pore bands with few spiracular discpores, and (ix) leg stubs present.

In the key to adult females of Cerococcus , C. deklei keys out close to C. russellae from Central America.