(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 Author Chris J. Hodgson Author Douglas J. Williams text Zootaxa 2016 4091 1 1 175 journal article 51608 10.11646/zootaxa.4091.1.1 bdd057d5-b4d6-4b57-940a-d7839f483e25 1175-5326 265332 urn:lsid:zoobank.org:pub:76D13D36-682E-4E91-AC91-693CA9D3D465 Asterococcus atratus Wang Asterococcus atratus Wang 1980: 140 –141. Type details. CHINA . Depository : IEBC: China : unknown type status. Comment . No material of this species has been seen during this study but it is here assumed to be a good species of Asterococcus . Although no collection data are given or types designated, this species has been collected in Guangdong and Sichuan Provinces of China on Camellia sinensis (Theaceae) and Gardenia sp. ( Rubiaceae ). The key in Wang (1980) separates A. atratus from A. schimae as follows: 15. Leg stubs with small spine [seta] at base; submarginal area of venter with numerous 8-shaped pores and tubular ducts......................................................................................... A. schimae Borchsenius - Leg stubs without a small spine [seta] at base; submarginal area of venter with few 8-shaped pores and tubular ducts............................................................................................... A. atratus Wang In addition, Wang (2001) separates A. atratus from A. yunnanensis in his key by the presence of 8-shaped pores with three lateral closed pores (“trilocular”) in the latter species but these are absent in A. atratus . (With many thanks to Prof. San-an Wu, pers. comm., for the above data). Based on the figure in Wang (1980), the adult female of A. atratus is characterised by the following combination of character-states: (i) eight-shaped pores on dorsum restricted to three or four transverse bands across abdominal segments; (ii) cribriform plates absent; (iii) tubular ducts on dorsum of one size, sparse medially becoming more abundant around margins; (iv) tubular ducts on venter absent medially; (v) posterior stigmatic bands bifurcated; (vi) stigmatic bands each with very few spiracular disc-pores near spiracles, broadening near margin; (vii) 8-shaped pores of two sizes on venter, smaller forming a marginal band and larger randomly distributed within apex of each stigmatic band; (viii) multilocular disc-pores present across abdominal segments II–VII, and probably on metathorax (also perhaps very sparsely medially on thorax); (ix) leg stubs present, and (x) loculate pores near antennae few.