Species Acanthococcus pustulatus (Maskell, 1893)

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Regional Maps

• Rhizococcus pustulatus 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 [231].

  Type data:

   Syntype(s) NZAC Female, AUSTRALIA: Victoria, Myrniong.

  Type host:

   Casuarina

Generic Combinations

• Acanthococcus pustulatus (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 [603]

Distribution

States

Victoria

Ecological Descriptors

Sap-feeder.

GENERAL

Most detailed description and illustration 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 and type information by 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

Adult female is dark red in color, convex. Second stage females are red and subelliptical. First-instar nymph is yellowish red. Male is unknown (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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