Asterococcus yunnanensis Borchsenius

Asterococcus yunnanensis Borchsenius Asterococcus yunnanensis Borchsenius 1960: 115���117. Type details. CHINA, Yunnan, Kunming, on Gardenia sp., 4.vi. 1957. Depository: ZIAS: 1 / 1 paratype adf (+ 10 non-type specimens)���all other type specimens were deposited in China, including the holotype (I. Gavrilov, pers. comm.). For a discussion of the whereabouts of Borchsenius��� material, see under A. quercicola above. Material studied. CHINA, Kunming, on Gardenia sp. (Rubiaceae), 4.vi. 1957, N. Borchsenius (BMNH): 1 / 1 adf (f���p). Comment. The main character-states diagnosing the adult female of A. yunnanensis are: (i) anteroventral sclerotizations on anal lobes absent; (ii) anal lobes sclerotized throughout; (iii) four spinose setae present on inner margin of each anal lobe; (iv) multilocular disc-pores present on abdominal segments II���VIII and on metathorax, with a complete band on segment VII; (v) dorsum with two sizes of tubular ducts, narrower ducts medially on head and thorax and broader ducts restricted to abdominal segments anterior to anal plate; (vi) tubular ducts very sparse or even absent medially on venter; (vii) cribriform plates absent; (viii) leg stubs small; (ix) small 8 -shaped pores present sparsely on dorsum; (x) 8 -shaped pores with three closed pores (���trilocular���) present associated with most stigmatic pore bands, and (xi) transverse bands of dorsal 8 -shaped pores present on about abdominal segments III, IV and VII. This species is possibly closest to A. scleroglutaeus ���see under that species above.
Published as part of 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, pp. 1-175 in Zootaxa 4091 (1) on page 143, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.4091.1.1, http://zenodo.org/record/265332