New genera, new species and new combinations for some African Coccomorpha (Hemiptera: Sternorrhyncha)
Author
Hodgson, Chris J.
text
Zootaxa
2021
2021-08-11
5020
1
57
80
journal article
10.11646/zootaxa.5020.1.3
1175-5326
5222969
AD147734-6BFE-49AB-98C9-7B911D8FF38E
Genus
Bugandacoccus
Hodgson
gen. nov.
Type
species
:
Ceronema (Ceroplastodes) gowdeyi
(
Newstead, 1911
)
Generic diagnosis
(based mainly on description of adult female by
Hodgson 1971
): Test of adult made of opaque, white, glassy wax, divided into large, polygonal plates. Body rather flat. When mature, adult occupying just anterior part of test; posterior part of test filled with ova and cast skins.
Dorsum
: membranous, lacking dorsal setae. Dorsal tubular ducts sparsely present throughout, each with a short inner ductule. Dorsal tubercles present, more or less in 2 median lines of 4 tubercles each, with 1 pair on head, 2 pairs medially (1 on head and other on thorax), also with a pair on either side of anal cleft. Pocket-like tubercles present submarginally. Unilocular and bilocular pores abundant, forming a pattern of large polygons throughout dorsum and grouped around each dorsal tubercle. Anal plates each with 4 apical and subapical setae.
Marginal
setae spinose. Stigmatic clefts deep, each with a sclerotised margin and 3 spinose stigmatic setae; often also with some spinose setae similar to marginal setae. Eyespot absent.
Venter
: multilocular disc-pores, mostly each with 12 loculi, restricted to posterior abdominal segments. Spiracular disc-pores normal for
Coccidae
. Ventral tubular ducts of
2 types
, 1 with a broad and the other with a narrow outer ductule; present throughout. Legs well developed, each with a tibio-tarsal articulation; claws each with a small denticle on proximal end, and with both digitules broad. Antennae each 7 segmented.
Comments
:
Bugandacoccus
gen. nov
.
is introduced to take
Ceronema gowdeyi
(
Fig. 4
), now
Bungandacoccus gowdeyi
(Newstead)
comb. nov.
In having no dorsal setae and in secreting a glassy test,
Bugandacoccus
would seem to fit into the glassy scales (Cardiococcinae). However, the presence of dorsal tubular ducts precludes this, so its subfamily placement is uncertain. The arrangement of the dorsal pores in a polygonal arrangement, the absence of dorsal setae, the placement of some dorsal tubercles medially, the presence of tubular ducts throughout the venter, and presence of pocket-like tubercles submarginally on the dorsum immediately separates this genus from other genera.
Bugandacoccus gowdeyi
is only known from the original collection near Entebbe,
Uganda
, on
Ficus sycamorus
in 1911.
Name derivation
: The name
Bugandacoccus
is composed of
Buganda
, an old name for the southern part of
Uganda
where Entebbe is situated, and
Coccus
(masculine) after the
type
species of the family.