Valid Names Results

Acanthomytilus kurdicus (Bodenheimer, 1943) (Diaspididae: Acanthomytilus)

Nomenclatural History

• Mytilococcus kurdicus Bodenheimer 1943: 5. Type data: IRAQ: Ruwanduz Gorge, on Acer cinerascens, 11/10/1942. Syntypes, female, Type depository: Bet Dagan: Department of Entomology, The Volcani Center, Israel; accepted valid name Illustr.
• Acanthomytilus kurdicus (Bodenheimer, 1943); Balachowsky 1954e: 111. change of combination
• Acanthomytilus kurdikus (Bodenheimer, 1943); Seghatoleslami 1977: 13. misspelling of species epithet

Common Names

Ecological Associates

Hosts:

Families: 3 | Genera: 3

Geographic Distribution

Keys

• MoghadWa2021: pp.34 ( Adult (F) ) [Acanthomytilus in Iran]
• Balach1954e: pp.105 ( Adult (F) ) [Key to Palearctic Acanthomytilus]

Remarks

• Structure: Female scale mussel-shaped, usually bent once or twice, rather flat. Broadest about middle, slightly tapering hindwards, pale yellowish green, conform with the colour of the substrate. Exuviae cephalic, second exuvia one third of scale length, yellowish. Body of adult female elongate ovate, clearly broadest in last third, broadly rounded behind, often constricted at base of mouthparts. Body segmentation indistinct, margin of abdominal segments distinctly rounded, but not produced into distinct lobes. Prosoma very large, the metaspiracles well in posterior body half, more distant from mesospiracles than these from anterior body margin. 4 short and slender marginal setae between antennae. Antennae broad, flat tubercles with 2 short stout divergent spines. Rostral loop very short, scarcely exceeding the mesospiracles. Spiracles dumb-bell shaped, with 1 (0-2) meso- and no metaspiracerores. Pygidium narrow with median lobes prominent. Median lobes rather distant, fused at base, from which 4 sclerotic bars extend cephalad. Median lobes with subparallel margins, with inner margins subparallel to slightly diverging, with 2 slight notches on each side of the cauded margin. 2 gland spines in median interval, essentially similar in shape to the forceps of the male earwig. Laterad follow: 1 glandspine, 1 large oval duct opening. All these glandspines slightly surpass the median lobes length. The duplex second lobes are slightly shorter than the median ones, more narrow and slender. L2a is enlarged at the apex, tapering towards the base, L2b is toothlike. 1 long gland spine, 2 openings of macroducts with 1 short gland spine between them. 3rd lobes simple, short sclerotic projection, not always distinct. 1 short gland spine, 2 mouths of macroducts, 1 short gland spine (Bodenheimer, 1943).
• General Remarks: Detailed description and illustration by Bodenheimer (1943).

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