A review species of the genus Ceroplastes (Hemiptera: Coccomorpha: Coccidae) in China
Author
Wu, San-An
Author
Wang, Xubo
text
Zootaxa
2019
2019-12-03
4701
6
520
536
journal article
24749
10.11646/zootaxa.4701.6.2
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Ceroplastes murrayi
Froggatt, 1919
(
Fig. 8
)
Ceroplastes murrayi
Froggatt,
Martin & Lau, 2011: 34
.
Material examined.
YUNNAN
:
3 ♀♀
, Puer, on
Alstonia scholaris
(Apocynaceae)
,
24.iv.2013
, coll. Jun Deng, Xubo Wang & Xu Zhang;
3 ♀♀
, Puer, on
Alstonia scholaris
,
22.viii.2013
, coll. Shimin Wang;
5 ♀♀
, Puer, on
Artocarpus heterophyllus
(Moraceae)
,
22.viii.2013
, coll. Shimin Wang.
Distribution in
China
.
Hong Kong (
Martin & Lau 2011
),
Yunnan
.
Host-plants.
Alstonia scholaris
(Apocynaceae)
,
Artocarpus heterophyllus
(Moraceae)
,
Melicope pteleifolia
(Rutaceae)
.
Biology.
Adult females occur on the twigs of the host.
Remarks.
Ceroplastes murrayi
was identified by comparison with the description and illustration in
Williams & Watson (1990)
. In
China
, the species is closest to
C. magnificus
,
but in
C. murrayi
the anal process is long and slender, about one-half as long as the body, and stigmatic setae are of one
type
, bullet-like; whereas in
C. magnificus
the anal process is short, not more than one-third the length of the body, and the stigmatic setae are of two
types
, bullet-like and hemispherical. In addition, their wax covers differ, that of
C. magnificus
having semi-transparent wax and lacking lateral filamentous rays, whereas
C. murrayi
has no transparent milky white wet wax, and has 4 long lateral filaments.
The adult female wax cover of
C. murrayi
is very similar to that of
C. feltyi
Hodges (2002)
from America, but
C. murrayi
has 7-segmented antennae, and 20–25 marginal setae between the stigmatic clefts on each side; whereas
C. feltyi
has 6-segmented antennae and only 3 or 4 marginal setae between the stigmatic clefts on each side.