Valid Names Results

Acanthococcus bezzii (Leonardi, 1907) (Eriococcidae: Acanthococcus)

Nomenclatural History

• Eriococcus bezzii Leonardi 1907b: 148-151. Type data: ITALY: Val Nerina, Sondrio, vaso 75 tubo no 7, on Rhododrendron ferrugineum, by M. Bezzi. Lectotype, female, by subsequent designation (TranfaEs1985,121). Type depository: Portici: Dipartimento de Entomologia e Zoologia Agraria di Portici, Universita di Napoli Federico II, Italy; accepted valid name Illustr.
• Eriococcus uvaeursi; Lindinger 1912. misidentification (discovered by Leonar1920, ).
• Acanthococcus bezzii (Leonardi, 1907); Miller & Gimpel 1996: 598. change of combination

Common Names

Ecological Associates

Hosts:

Families: 1 | Genera: 1

Geographic Distribution

Keys

• KozarKaKo2013: pp.75-77 ( Adult (F) ) [Key to species of Acanthococcus]
• TangHa1995: pp.451, 648 ( Adult (F) ) [Eriococcus species ] Key as: Eriococcus bezzii
• TranfaEs1985: pp.115 ( Adult (F) ) [Eriococcus species of Italy] Key as: Eriococcus bezzii

Remarks

• Systematics: Slide-mounted adult female with: enlarged setae conical, apices acute; dorsum covered by enlarged setae except medial areas of last 3 abdominal segments; marginal enlarged setae larger than other dorsal setae; microtubular ducts elongate with single sclerotization (Tranfaglia & Esposito, 1985). Lindinger (1943b) erroneously considered Eriococcus bezzii to be a junior synonym of E. azaleae. Lindinger (1912b) incorrectly considered E. bezzii to be a junior synonym of E. uvaeursi. Goux (1936a & b) erroneously considered E. bezzii to be a junior synonym of E. bahiae = texanus. Later, in 1948a, Goux incorrectly considered both E. bezzii and E. texanus to be junior synonyms of E. uvaeursi. Information used to distinguish among E. bezzii, A. bahiae = texanus and E. uvaeursi is given in the remarks of E. uvaeursi. We are considering all of these species as distinct until more detailed studies can be undertaken.
• Structure: Adult female oval (Tranfaglia & Esposito, 1985).
• General Remarks: Description and illustration by Leonardi (1907b) and by Tranfaglia & Esposito (1985).

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