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Gallinococcus Lambdin & Kosztarab, 1973 (Lecanodiaspididae)

Nomenclatural History

• Gallinococcus Lambdin & Kosztarab 1973: 54. Type species: Gallinococcus ferrisi Lambdin & Kosztarab by monotypy and original designation . (= Amorphococcus leptospermi, Morrison & Morrison ) accepted valid name

Remarks

• Systematics: The holotype of both Amorphococcus leptospermi Morrison & Morrison (1927) and Gallinococcus ferrisi Lambdin & Kosztarab (1973) [type species of Gallinococcus Lambdin & Kosztarab (1973)] is the same single specimen, deposited in USNM, and labelled in red ink "Amorphococcus leptospermi/n.sp./Holotype/HM." in black ink "8480/Sphaerococcus/ leptospermi Masl./on/Leptospermum/N.S.W/W.W. Froggatt" in pencil "40358/B". The right label is not original and labelled, in pencil, "Leptospermi/associated with Lecanodiaspis/H.M. March 11,/1952" and in ink "Gallinococcus/ferrisi n. sp./Det Lambdin & Krb." (See Miller, Gullan & Williams, 1998: 294).
• General Remarks: Definition and characters by Lambdin & Kosztarab (1973).

Keys

• LambdiKo1973: pp.22 ( Adult (F) ) [World]

Associated References

• BenDov2006b: catalog, taxonomy, pp. 321
• KosztaBeKo1986: taxonomy, pp. 6
• LambdiKo1973: description, taxonomy, pp. 54-60
• MillerGuWi1998: taxonomy, pp. 294
• Wang1982TC: taxonomy, pp. 85
• WangWaZh2024: distribution, pp. 328

1 Species