Valid Names Results

Gallacoccus spinigalla Takagi, 2001 (Beesoniidae: Gallacoccus)

Nomenclatural History

• Gallacoccus spinigalla Takagi 2001: 61-64. Type data: MALAYSIA: Malaya, Selangor, Gombak, along logging road near Field Study Centre, University of Malaya, probably on Shorea sp.; collected March and April, 1993 by H.P. Heckroth.. Holotype, female, Type depository: Kepong: Forest Research Institute of Malaysia, Selandgor, Malaysia; accepted valid name Illustr.

Common Names

Ecological Associates

Hosts:

Families: 1 | Genera: 1

Geographic Distribution

Keys

• Hodgso2020: pp.107-108 ( Adult (M) ) [Beesoniidae]

Remarks

• Systematics: The adult female of Gallacoccus spinigalla resembles very closely G. secundus, but the two are distinguishable in the 1st instar female. In G. spinigalla has no dermal pits present on the head and prothorax; the spiracular disc pores are quinquelocular, not 7-locular as in G. secundus; the 2nd antennal segment has no seta; the seta arising at the middle ventral surface of the hind tarsus is very long; the claws are apparently elongate. In the adult male, G. spinigalla differs from G. secundus in having a much smaller head and smaller eyes (Takagi, 2001).
• Structure: Adult female globular, simplified in structure. Quinquelocular disc pores variable in size, strewn broadly around anterior spiracles and also in a broad band along body margin on posterior half of body, completely surrounding vulva. Dorsal derm spiculate in some segments anterior to anus. Adult male with head small, much narrower than thorax, which is about 2.5 times as broad as the head; abdomen (excluding genital capsule) about as long as thorax, gradually narrowing posteriorly in distal half (Takagi, 2001).
• General Remarks: Description and illustration of 1st instars male and females, adult male and females by Takagi (2001).

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