Species Acanthococcus australis (Maskell, 1895)

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• Eriococcus buxi australis Maskell, W.M. 1895. Further coccid notes: with description of new species from New Zealand, Australia, Sandwich Islands, and elsewhere, and remarks upon many species already reported. Transactions and Proceedings of the New Zealand Institute 27: 36-75 [65].

  Type data:

   Syntype(s) NZAC, Australia: Queensland, Brisbane, Botanic Gardens.

Generic Combinations

• Acanthococcus australis (Maskell, 1895). —
  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

New South Wales, Queensland

Ecological Descriptors

Sap-feeder.

GENERAL

Brief description by Maskell, W.M. 1895. Further coccid notes: with description of new species from New Zealand, Australia, Sandwich Islands, and elsewhere, and remarks upon many species already reported. Transactions and Proceedings of the New Zealand Institute 27: 36–75.

General References

Froggatt, W.W. 1921. A new mealybug on citrus trees. (Pulvinaria ornata n. sp.). Agricultural Gazette of New South Wales 32: 427-428 [75] (Eriococcus buxi: misidentification discovered by : 73)

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