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Akermes scrobiculatus (Maskell, 1893) (Coccidae: Akermes)

Lecanium scrobiculatum Maskell 1893b: 221. Type data: AUSTRALIA: New South Wales, Whitton, on Acacia sp.. Syntypes, both sexes, Type depository: Auckland: New Zealand Arthropod Collection, Landcare Research, New Zealand; London: The Natural History Museum, England, UK; Washington: United States National Entomological Collection, U.S. National Museum of Natural History, District of Columbia, USA; accepted valid name
Lecanium pingue; Maskell 1895b: 58. incorrect synonymy (discovered by Hodgso2020, 227).
Akermes scrobiculatus (Maskell, 1893); Fernald 1903b: 178. change of combination requiring emendation of specific epithet for agreement in gender

Families: 1 | Genera: 2

Families: 1 | Genera: 1

Countries: 1

Structure: Males with rather short antennae, each about half total body length; head with two pairs simple eyes; head and rest of body with very few setae, all hair-like (hs); fleshy setae (fs) on appendages usually easy to separable from hs; procoxae each with two stout bristles; trochanterofemur articulation obscure or absent. Abdominal caudal extensions on VIII rounded, each with a dorsal, lightly sclerotised, protuberance (cicatrix); glandular pouches absent. Total body length 1.4–1.48 mm, width across triangular plates (tp) about 350 μm. Wings slightly shorter than total body length and about half as wide as long. (Hodgson, 2020)
General Remarks: Description and illustration of adult female by Froggatt (1915). Detailed description and illustration of male in Hodgson, 2020.