Species Lecanodiaspis acaciae (Maskell, 1893)

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• Prosopophora acaciae 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 [225].

  Type data:

   Holotype USNEC ♀, AUSTRALIA.

  Type host:

   Acacia calamifolia [FABACEAE]

Distribution

States

Victoria, Western Australia

Ecological Descriptors

Sap-feeder.

ID Keys

(Howell, J.O. & Kosztarab, M., 1972) [29] (female; world); (Williams, M.L. & Kosztarab, M., 1970) [15] (first-instar nymph; world)

GENERAL

Description and illustration of adult female by Howell, J.O. & Kosztarab, M. 1972. Morphology and systematics of the adult females of the genus Lecanodiaspis (Homoptera: Coccoidea: Lecanodiaspididae). Research Division Bulletin Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University, Blacksburg 70: 1–248. Description and illustration of first-instar nymph by Williams, M.L. & Kosztarab, M. 1970. A morphological and systematic study of the first instar nymphs of the genus Lecanodiaspis (Homoptera: Coccoidea: Lecanodiaspididae). Bulletin of the Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University Research Division 52: 1–96.

General References

Cockerell, T.D.A. 1896. A check list of the Coccidae. Bulletin of the Illinois State Laboratory of Natural History 4: 318-339 [327] (Lecaniodiaspis acaciae: misspelling of genus name)

Fernald, M.E. 1903. A catalogue of the Coccidae of the world. Bulletin of the Hatch Experiment Station of the Massachusetts Agricultural College 88: 1-360 [54] (Lecaniodiaspis acaciae: misspelling of genus name)

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