Valid Names Results

Acanthomytilus cupressicola Moghaddam, 2017 (Diaspididae: Acanthomytilus)

Nomenclatural History

• Torosaspis cedricola; Moghaddam 2013a: 54. misidentification (discovered by MoghadWa2021, 21).
• Acanthomytilus cupressicola Moghaddam 2017: 208. Type data: IRAN: Gilan province, Roodbar, 36°49'10.5''N 49°25'49.1''E , 188 m altitude, on Cupressus sp., 11/5/1994, by M. Moghaddam. Holotype, female, by original designation Type depository: Tehran: Hayk Mirzayans Insects Museum, Tehran, Iran; accepted valid name Notes: Paratypes: 7 adult females, on the same slide including holotype. The holotype is marked on the slide.

Common Names

Ecological Associates

Hosts:

Families: 1 | Genera: 1

Geographic Distribution

Keys

• MoghadWa2021: pp.34 ( Adult (F) ) [Acanthomytilus in Iran]

Remarks

• Systematics: This species is characterized by having the following combination of morphological characters: (i) Median lobes distinctly separated from each other; second lobes bilobed, outer lobule small and sub-triangular; (ii) antennae each with 2 setae; (iii) marginal macroducts 5 in number on each side of pygidium, in formula of 1,2,1,1; (iv) presence of 2 gland spines between the median lobes, singly between segments VI & VII, and 1 lateral to segment VI; (v) ventral tubercle ducts present near each posterior spiracles and on abdominal segments I and II; (vi) anterior spiracles with disc pores. This species resembles A. kurdicus Bodenheimer in having: a) tubular ducts present near posterior spiracles; and differs in (character states on the studied specimens of A. kurdicus in brackets): (i) median lobes rounded apically (sub-triangular and with 2 notches on each sides), (ii) gland spines singly present on abdominal segments VI and VII (paired), (iii) median gland spine normal (horn-like), (iv) dorsal marginal ducts in pair on segments VI (in pairs on segments V and VI). (Moghaddam, 2017)
• Structure: Live appearance of adult female convex, elongate, oyster-shell shaped, light brown in color, with two apical exuviae pale yellow and transparent, scale 1.7−2.0 mm long 0.6-0.8 mm wide. Mounted female oval, membranous except pygidium, 0.66-0.79 mm long, 0.30-0.41 mm wide, widest at metathorax; lateral margins of posterior segments moderately lobed. (Moghaddam, 2017)
• General Remarks: Detailed description and illustration in Moghaddam, 2017.

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