Species Acanthococcus tesselatus (Froggatt, 1916)

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Regional Maps

• Eriococcus tesselatus 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 [576].

  Type data:

   Lectotype ASCT Female, AUSTRALIA: New South Wales, Manly.

  Subsequent designation references:

  Gullan, P.J. & Vranjic, J.A. 1991. The taxonomy of the gum tree scales Eriococcus confusus Maskell and E. coriaceus Maskell (Hemiptera: Coccoidea: Eriococcidae). General and Applied Entomology 23: 21-40 [37].

  Type host:

   Eucalyptus

Generic Combinations

• Acanthococcus tesselatus (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 [604]

Distribution

States

New South Wales

Ecological Descriptors

Sap-feeder.

ID Keys

(Gullan, P.J. & Vranjic, J.A., 1991) [26] (adult female; Australian species of Eriococcus which infest Eucalyptus species)

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. Gullan, P.J. & Vranjic, J.A. 1991. The taxonomy of the gum tree scales Eriococcus confusus Maskell and E. coriaceus Maskell (Hemiptera: Coccoidea: Eriococcidae). General and Applied Entomology 23: 21–40 also provide a description.

SYSTEMATICS

Slide-mounted adult female with: enlarged setae slender, conical, apices slightly rounded, all approximately same general size except 1 pair in medial area of abdominal segment 7 slightly longer; dorsum tuberculate, covered in irregularly circular to oval, slightly elevated, sclerotized patches (see Gullan, P.J. & Vranjic, J.A. 1991. The taxonomy of the gum tree scales Eriococcus confusus Maskell and E. coriaceus Maskell (Hemiptera: Coccoidea: Eriococcidae). General and Applied Entomology 23: 21–40).

STRUCTURE

Sac of female is elongate, often half buried in a crack in the bark surface, white to brown in color. Adult female is bright red, rounded and oval (see Froggatt, W.W. 1921. A descriptive catalogue of the scale insects (Coccidae) of Australia. (Part II [Concl.]). Science Bulletin, Department of Agriculture, New South Wales 18: 1–159).

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