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Acanthomytilus jablonowskii Kozár & Matile-Ferrero, 1983 (Diaspididae: Acanthomytilus)

Acanthomytilus jablonowskii Kozár & Matile-Ferrero 1983: 389-392. Type data: HUNGARY: Szársomlyó, on Chrysopogon gryllus, 18/06/1981, by M. Kosztarab and F. Kozár. Holotype, female, by original designation Type depository: Budapest: Hungarian Natural History Museum, Zoological Department, Hungary; accepted valid name Notes: Three paratypes on three slides, same data in HNHM and one paratype in MNHN Illustr.

Families: 1 | Genera: 1

Countries: 4

Systematics: This species is close to Acanthomytilus intermittens and A. sacchari. The exclusive character of A. jablonowskii is the absence of ventral grandular tubercles on segment one. It differs from A. intermittens in possessing a higher number of dorsal submedian macroducts on segment 7, of dorsal submarginal and submedian macroducts on 6 and of ventral microducts on 8. A. jablonowskii differs from A. sacchari in possessing only 2 gland spines laterad of L2 and by the presence of bilobed L2 (Kozár & Matile-Ferrero, 1983).
Structure: Test of adult female is elongate, oystershell-shaped, brownish yellow, with 2 exuviae at pointed end. Ventral test thin and white. Test of male whitish, parallel-sided. Eggs white. Adult female elongate oval, body whitish. Widest at second segment. Body membranous, except for pygidium. Each antenna with 2 large setae and 2 coeloconic sensillae. Stylet loop reaches middle of mesothorax. Anterior spiracles with a group of 4-8 trilocular pores (Kozár & Matile-Ferrero, 1983).
General Remarks: Detailed description and distribution by Kozár & Matile-Ferrero (1983).