Valid Names Results

Acanthococcus ribesiae Borchsenius, 1960 (Eriococcidae: Acanthococcus)

Nomenclatural History

• Acanthococcus ribesiae Borchsenius 1960a: 193-5. Type depository: St. Petersburg: Zoological Museum, Academy of Science, Russia; accepted valid name
• Eriococcus ribesiae (Borchsenius, 1960); Hoy 1963: 112. change of combination
• Acanthococcus ribesiae Borchsenius, 1960; Kozár 2009: 93. revived combination (previously published)

Common Names

Ecological Associates

Hosts:

Families: 1 | Genera: 1

Geographic Distribution

Keys

• KozarKaKo2013: pp.75-77 ( Adult (F) ) [Key to species of Acanthococcus]
• TangHa1995: pp.448, 645 ( Adult (F) ) [Eriococcus species] Key as: Eriococcus ribesiae

Remarks

• Systematics: Slide-mounted adult female with: enlarged setae conical, sides straight, apices rounded, marginal setae and medial setae on thorax larger than setae on other parts of dorsum, 2 lateral setae on margin of each abdominal segment (Borchsenius, 1960a).
• Structure: Adult female elongated oval, 2.5 mm long. Egg sacs felt-like, cream-white, 2.5 mm long, 1.5 mm wide. (Kozár, et al., 2013)
• Biology: In bark crevices of trunk and wide branches. Often in large colonies. Female appears in egg sacs in the end of May. Egglaying finished by the end of July. Heavily infested branches of plants dryed out (Borchsenius, 1960a).
• General Remarks: Detailed description and illustration by Borchsenius (1960a).

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