Valid Names Results

Halimococcus thebaicae Hall, 1923 (Halimococcidae: Halimococcus)

Nomenclatural History

• Halimococcus thebaicae Hall 1923: 2-3. Type data: EGYPT: Luxor, Nag' Hamâdi and Motana, on Hyphaene thebaica. Syntypes, female, Type depository: Cairo: Plant Protection Department, Ministry of Agriculture, Egypt; London: The Natural History Museum, England, UK; Washington: United States National Entomological Collection, U.S. National Museum of Natural History, District of Columbia, USA; accepted valid name Notes: There are 14 slides in USNM, 4 marked "type" and 10 marked "paratype." Illustr.

Common Names

• Egyptian doum palm scale AbdRabEv2021

Ecological Associates

Hosts:

Families: 1 | Genera: 1

Geographic Distribution

Keys

• Stickn1934: pp.82, 83 ( ) [Key to species of Halimococcus]

Remarks

• Structure: Adult female is completely enclosed in a reddish brown hard rigid puparium. The sac is broadly oval, strongly convex above and flattened below (Hall, 1923). Female body semi-circular or slightly ovate, about 0.8 mm long and 0.7 mm wide. Body segmentation quite obscure and outer margin smooth. Derm membranous, so thin and delicate that it is extremely difficult to extract without rupturing (Ezzat & Afifi, 1966).
• General Remarks: Detailed descriptions and illustrations of egg, first instar, both sexes of second instar, third-instar female, fourth-instar male and both sexes of adult by Stickney (1943).

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