Valid Names Results

Acantholecanium haloxyloni (Hall, 1926) (Coccidae: Acantholecanium)

Nomenclatural History

• Ctenochiton haloxyloni Hall 1926a: 17. Type data: EGYPT: Suez Road (between 5th and 6th Towers), on Haloxylon schweinfurthii.. Holotype, female, Type depository: London: The Natural History Museum, England, UK; accepted valid name
• Ctenochiton halyxyloni Hall, 1926; Archangelskaya 1930: 81. misspelling of species epithet
• Ctenochiton haloxyli Hall, 1926; Lindinger 1932f: 197. emendation that is unjustified (discovered by BenDov1993, 4).
• Acantholecanium haloxyloni (Hall, 1926); Borchsenius 1949b: 340. change of combination

Common Names

Ecological Associates

Hosts:

Families: 1 | Genera: 4

Geographic Distribution

Keys

• MohammMo2013: pp.146-148 ( Adult (F) ) [Key to species and subspecies of family coccidae in Egypt]
• EzzatHu1969: pp.372 ( Adult (F) ) [Egypt]

Remarks

• Structure: General appearance. "Adult female broadly ovate to circular in outline, highly convex almost hemispherical. Ventral surface flat. Margin with a series of stout rays some of which are often broken off in old adults. Dorsum rugose with a submarginal suture that runs posteriorly into the anal plates. Dorsum with waxy plates each plate being mound shaped and surmounted by a little irregularly shaped glassy mass suggesting granulated sugar. The plates themselves appear to have some sort of arrangement but this is obscure. The granular masses surmounting the plates give a characteristic appearance. Anal plates dark brown. General colouration of dorsum grey with a tinge of yellow green, in some specimens pink. Old adult females turn darker in colour." (Hall, 1926a).
• Biology: Lives on roots of the host plants.
• General Remarks: Description and illustration of the adult female given by Ezzat & Hussein (1969), Tang (1991) and by Hodgson (1994a). Description of the adult female given by Borchsenius (1957).

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