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Coccomytilus acaciae (Maskell, 1896) (Diaspididae: Coccomytilus)

Mytilaspis acaciae Maskell 1896b: 387. Type data: AUSTRALIA: New South Wales, Hornsby, near Sydney, on Acacia linifolia, by W.W. Froggatt. Syntypes, unknown, Type depository: Auckland: New Zealand Arthropod Collection, Landcare Research, New Zealand; accepted valid name Notes: Subsequently mounted material is in USNM and BMNH. Illustr.
Mytilaspis acaciae albida Maskell 1897: 304. Type data: AUSTRALIA: Western Australia, on Acacia sp., by Mr. Lea. Syntypes, larva, Type depository: Auckland: New Zealand Arthropod Collection, Landcare Research, New Zealand; Washington: United States National Entomological Collection, U.S. National Museum of Natural History, District of Columbia, USA; junior synonym (discovered by Borchs1966, 31).
Coccomytilus acaciae (Maskell, 1896); Leonardi 1903: 10, 14. change of combination
Coccomytilus acaciae albida (Maskell, 1897); Leonardi 1903: 14. change of combination
Lepidosaphes acaciae (Maskell, 1896); Fernald 1903b: 304. change of combination
Lepidosaphes acaciae albida (Maskell, 1897); Fernald 1903b: 304. change of combination
Coccomytilus acaciae (Maskell, 1896); Borchsenius 1966: 31. revived combination (previously published)

Families: 1 | Genera: 1

Countries: 1

MacGil1921: pp.294 ( Adult (F) ) [Species of Coccomytilus]
Leonar1903: pp.10 ( Adult (F) ) [Species of the genus Coccomytilus]
Cocker1899f: pp.13 ( Adult (F) ) [Australian species of Mytilaspis] Key as: Mytilaspis acaciae
Cocker1899f: pp.13 ( Adult (F) ) [Australian species of Mytilaspis] Key as: Mytilaspis acaciae v. albida

Systematics: Maskell (1897) states the differences in the subspecies Coccomytilus acaciae albida are that the covers are lighter in color, the median abdominal lobes are more prominent.
Structure: Female puparium mussel-shaped, slightly convex and usually curved, dark greyish brown in color. Larval pellicle small, yellow, terminal. Male puparium mussel shaped, not carinated, greyish brown in color, but lighter than the female. Adult female dark brown, elongated. Adult male red, normal in form, with no special features (Maskell, 1896b).
Biology: Female covers were massed in great numbers on twigs, quite separately from the equally numerous male covers; and these latter, from their orange red pellicles, presented altogether a more ruddy appearance than the former (Maskell, 1896b).
General Remarks: Detailed description and illustration by Maskell (1896b).