Species Acanthococcus angulatus (Froggatt, 1916)

Museums

Regional Maps

• Eriococcus angulatus Froggatt, W.W. 1916. A descriptive catalogue of the scale insects (Coccidae) of Australia. (Part II [in part]). Agricultural Gazette of New South Wales 27: 425-430, 568-577, 809-816, 883-888 [426].

  Type data:

   Syntype(s) ASCT, AUSTRALIA: Perth.

Generic Combinations

• Acanthococcus angulatus (Froggatt, 1916). —
  Miller, D.R. & Gimpel, M.E. 1996. Nomenclatural changes in the Eriococcidae (Homoptera: Coccoidea). Proceedings of the Entomological Society of Washington 98: 597-606 [598]

Distribution

States

Western Australia

Ecological Descriptors

Sap-feeder.

BIOLOGY

The infested host is not covered with a black smut as in similar species (see Froggatt, W.W. 1916. A descriptive catalogue of the scale insects (Coccidae) of Australia. (Part II [in part]). Agricultural Gazette of New South Wales 27: 425–430, 568–577, 809–816, 883–888).

STRUCTURE

Adult female yellow, sacs are white (Froggatt, W.W. 1916. A descriptive catalogue of the scale insects (Coccidae) of Australia. (Part II [in part]). Agricultural Gazette of New South Wales 27: 425–430, 568–577, 809–816, 883–888).

GENERAL

Most detailed description and illustration by Froggatt, W.W. 1916. A descriptive catalogue of the scale insects (Coccidae) of Australia. (Part II [in part]). Agricultural Gazette of New South Wales 27: 425–430, 568–577, 809–816, 883–888.

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