Species Xenococcus annandalei Silvestri, 1924

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• Xenococcus annandalei Silvestri, F. 1924. A new myrmecophilous genus of Coccidae (Hemiptera) from India. Records of the Indian Museum 26: 311-315 [312].

Ecological Descriptors

Sap-feeder.

ID Keys

(Williams, D.J., 1998) [23] (female; world)

GENERAL

Good description and illustration of the adult female, and immature females described and illustrated by Williams, D.J. 1978. The anomalous ant-attended mealybugs (Homoptera: Pseudococcidae) of South-East Asia. Bulletin of the British Museum (Natural History), Entomology 37: 72 pp., Williams, D.J. & Watson, G.W. 1988. The Scale Insects of the Tropical South Pacific Region. Part 1. The armoured scales (Diaspididae). London : CAB International Institute of Entomology 290 pp. and by Tang, F.T. 1992. [The Pseudococcidae of China]. Taigu, Shanxi, China : Shanxi Agricultural University 768 pp.. Williams, D.J. 1998. Mealybugs of the genera Eumyrmococcus Silvestri and Xenococcus Silvestri associated with the ant genus Acropyga Roger and a review of the subfamily Rhizoecinae (Hemiptera, Coccoidea, Pseudococcidae). Bulletin of the Natural History Museum. Entomology Series (London) 67: 1–64 described the female pupal instar, being the first record of such a female instar in any species of scale insects, and an unusual adult male. Despite these unusual instars, Williams (1988) retained the species in the Pseudococcidae.

BIOLOGY

Found underground, attended by, and in the nest of, the ant Acropyga acutiventris.

General References

Danzig, E.M. & Konstantinova, G.M. 1990. [On coccid (Homoptera, Coccinea) fauna of Vietnam.]. Trudy Zoologicheskogo Instituta, Akademiya Nauk SSSR 209: 38-52 [41] (Xenococcus anandalei: misspelling of species name)

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