Valid Names Results

Rhizococcus multispinosus Kuhlgatz, 1898 (Eriococcidae: Rhizococcus)

Nomenclatural History

• Rhizococcus multispinosus Kuhlgatz 1898: 185-186. Type data: GERMANY: in the Warmhause des Königlichen botanischen Museums zu Berlin, on Opuntia vestita, by Schumann. Syntypes, female, Type depository: Berlin: Museum fur Naturkunde der Humboldt Universitat zu Berlin, Germany; accepted valid name
• Eriococcus multispinosus (Kuhlgatz, 1898); Cockerell 1900i: 595. change of combination
• Eriococcus coccineus; Lindinger 1931. incorrect synonymy
• Acanthococcus multispinosus (Kuhlgatz, 1898); Miller & Gimpel 1996: 602. change of combination
• Rhizococcus multispinosus Kuhlgatz, 1898; Kozár 2009: 106. revived combination (previously published)

Common Names

Ecological Associates

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Families: 1 | Genera: 1

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Remarks

• Systematics: Slide-mounted adult female with: enlarged setae conical, sides straight, apices rounded, marginal setae conspicuously larger than others on dorsum, 3 lateral setae on margin of most abdominal segments; 5 setae on hind tibia (Kuhlgatz, 1898). This species was incorrectly treated as a junior synonym of Eriococcus coccineus by Lindinger (1931a) and was considered a possible synonym by Cockerell (1900i) (Hoy, 1963). Eriococcus multispinosus (Kuhlgatz) (1898) is the senior secondary homonym of E. multispinosus Matesova (1976) which is now named E. matesovae.
• Structure: Adult female is oval, 1.75–2.75 mm long, darkreddish-brown. (Kozár, et al., 2013)
• General Remarks: Best description and illustration by Kuhlgatz (1898).

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