Species Acanthococcus conspersus (Maskell, 1893)

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• Eriococcus conspersus Maskell, W.M. 1893. Further coccid notes: with descriptions of new species from Australia, India, Sandwich Islands, Demerara, and South Pacific. Transactions and Proceedings of the New Zealand Institute 25: 201-252 [229].

  Type data:

   Syntype(s) NZAC, New South Wales, Clarence River, Harwood.

  Type host:

   Casuarina

Generic Combinations

• Acanthococcus conspersus (Maskell, 1893). —
  Miller, D.R. & Gimpel, M.E. 1996. Nomenclatural changes in the Eriococcidae (Homoptera: Coccoidea). Proceedings of the Entomological Society of Washington 98: 597-606 [599]

Distribution

States

New South Wales

Ecological Descriptors

Sap-feeder.

GENERAL

Detailed description and illustrations by Maskell, W.M. 1893. Further coccid notes: with descriptions of new species from Australia, India, Sandwich Islands, Demerara, and South Pacific. Transactions and Proceedings of the New Zealand Institute 25: 201–252 including adult males and females as well as a description of first-instar nymphs. Type data from Deitz, L.L. & Tocker, M.F. 1980. W.M. Maskell's Homoptera: Species-group names and type-material. New Zealand Department of Scientific and Industrial Research, Information Series 146: 1–76.

STRUCTURE

Sac of adult female yellow, not closely felted. Sac of male pupa white and cylindrical. Adult females brown. First instars and adult males are brown (see Maskell, W.M. 1893. Further coccid notes: with descriptions of new species from Australia, India, Sandwich Islands, Demerara, and South Pacific. Transactions and Proceedings of the New Zealand Institute 25: 201–252).

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