Antecerococcus is a genus of scale insects. They are found worldwide but with greater abundance in the Old World.[2] There are about 56 species:
- Antecerococcus albospicatus (Green, 1909)
- Antecerococcus alluaudi (Marchal, 1904)
- Antecerococcus andamanensis Hodgson & Williams, 2016
- Antecerococcus ankaratrae (Mamet, 1954)
- Antecerococcus asparagi (Joubert, 1925)
- Antecerococcus baccharidis (Hempel, 1900)
- Antecerococcus badius (Leonardi, 1911)
- Antecerococcus bryoides (Maskell, 1894)
- Antecerococcus camarai (Neves, 1954)
- Antecerococcus capensis Hodgson & Williams, 2016
- Antecerococcus cistarum (Balachowsky, 1927)
- Antecerococcus citri (Lambdin, 1986)
- Antecerococcus cliffortiae (Joubert, 1925)
- Antecerococcus corokiae (Maskell, 1890)
- Antecerococcus delottoi Hodgson & Williams, 2016
- Antecerococcus dumonti (Vayssière, 1927)
- Antecerococcus echinatus (Wang & Qiu, 1986)
- Antecerococcus eremobius (Scott, 1907)
- Antecerococcus fradei (Castel-Branco, 1952)
- Antecerococcus froggatti (Morrison & Morrison, 1927)
- Antecerococcus gabonensis (Lambdin, 1983)
- Antecerococcus gallicolus (Mamet, 1959)
- Antecerococcus hilli Hodgson & Williams, 2016
- Antecerococcus indicus (Maskell, 1897)
- Antecerococcus insleyae Hodgson & Williams, 2016
- Antecerococcus intermedius (Balachowsky, 1930)
- Antecerococcus kakamegae Hodgson & Williams, 2016
- Antecerococcus keralae Hodgson & Williams, 2016
- Antecerococcus kurraensis Hodgson & Williams, 2016
- Antecerococcus laniger (Goux, 1932)
- Antecerococcus lizeri (Granara de Willink, 1996)
- Antecerococcus longipilosus (Archangelskaya, 1930)
- Antecerococcus madagascariensis (Mamet, 1959)
- Antecerococcus mirandae (Lambdin, 1987)
- Antecerococcus muntingi Hodgson & Williams, 2016
- Antecerococcus oranensis (Balachowsky, 1941)
- Antecerococcus ornatus (Green, 1909)
- Antecerococcus oumeensis Hodgson & Williams, 2016
- Antecerococcus ovoides (Cockerell, 1901)
- Antecerococcus paradoxus (Maskell, 1889)
- Antecerococcus parahybensis (Hempel, 1927)
- Antecerococcus passerinae (Brain, 1920)
- Antecerococcus perowskiae (Archangelskaya, 1931)
- Antecerococcus philippiae (Lambdin & Kosztarab, 1977)
- Antecerococcus pileae (Mamet, 1950)
- Antecerococcus pocilliferus (Neves, 1954)
- Antecerococcus roseus (Green, 1909)
- Antecerococcus royenae (Brain, 1920)
- Antecerococcus ruber (Balachowsky, 1930)
- Antecerococcus sparsiporus Hodgson & Williams, 2016
- Antecerococcus stellatus (Maskell, 1897)
- Antecerococcus steppicus (Balachowsky, 1941)
- Antecerococcus thesii Hodgson & Williams, 2016
- Antecerococcus theydoni (Hall, 1935)
- Antecerococcus yemenicus Hodgson & Williams, 2016
- Antecerococcus zapotlanus (Cockerell, 1903)
| Antecerococcus | |
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| Antecerococcus indicus (with an attendant ant Camponotus sp.) is common on Hibiscus spp. | |
Scientific classification 
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| Domain: | Eukaryota |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Arthropoda |
| Class: | Insecta |
| Order: | Hemiptera |
| Suborder: | Sternorrhyncha |
| Family: | Cerococcidae |
| Genus: | Antecerococcus Green, 1901 |
| Type species | |
| Cerococcus punctiferus | |
References
edit- ^ Green, E.E. (1901). "On some new species of Coccidae from Australia, collected by W.W. Froggatt, F.L.S." Proceedings of the Linnean Society of New South Wales. 25: 559–562.
- ^ Hodgson, Chris J.; Williams, Douglas J. (2016). "A revision of the family Cerococcidae Balachowsky (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): 1–175. doi:10.11646/zootaxa.4091.1.1. PMID 27394446.