Acanthopulvinaria discoidalis (lat.) Is a species of half-winged insects - a coccid of the genus Acanthopulvinaria from the family Pseudoscutis ( Coccidae ) [1] .
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Distribution
Africa: Egypt (Suez Road, at the 7th Tower). Asia: Israel [1] [2] .
Description
The main color is dark brown. They feed on the juices of such amaranth plants as Haloxylon schweinfurthii saxaul , Haloxylon articulatum , Anabasis articulata , Haloxylon ( Amaranthaceae ). The species was first described in 1923 by entomologist W.J. Hall ( WJ ) as Pulvinaria discoidalis [1] [3] [4] [5] . The taxon Acanthopulvinaria discoidalis was isolated into a separate genus Acanthopulvinaria Borchsenius, 1952, together with the species Acanthopulvinaria orientalis Nasonov , 1908 [1] .
See also
- Andaspis formicarum
- Euripersia artemisiae
Notes
- ↑ 1 2 3 4 Ben-Dov, Y. Acantholecanium haloxyloni . Scale insect web catalog . scalenet.info (26th of June, 2014). - Taxonomy. Date of treatment June 30, 2014. (unavailable link)
- ↑ Hodgson, CJ The scale insect family Coccidae: an identification manual to genera. - Wallingford, Oxon, UK: CAB International, 1994 .-- P. 1-639.
- ↑ Hall, WJ Further observations on the Coccidae of Egypt (English) // Bulletin, Ministry of Agriculture, Egypt, Technical and Scientific Service: Journal. - Egypt, 1923. - Vol. 36. - P. 1-61.
- ↑ Hall, WJ Contribution to the knowledge of the Coccidae of Egypt (English) // Bulletin, Ministry of Agriculture, Egypt, Technical and Scientific Service: Journal. - 1926. - Vol. 72. - P. 1-41.
- ↑ Ezzat, YM Nada, SMA List of Superfamily Coccoidea as known to exist in Egypt // Bollettino del Laboratorio di Entomologia Agraria 'Filippo Silvestri' (Proceedings of the Fifth International Symposium of Scale Insect Studies): Journal. - 1987. - Vol. 43 (Suppl.). - P. 85-90.
Literature
- Borchsenius N.S. Worms and Scutellaria (Coccoidea). - Moscow - Leningrad: Publishing House of the Academy of Sciences of the USSR, 1950. - 1-250 p. - (Keys to the fauna of the USSR, published by the Zoological Institute of the USSR Academy of Sciences . No. 32). - 2000 copies.
- Ben-Dov, Yair. A systematic catalog of the soft scale insects of the world (Homoptera: Coccoidea: Coccidae). - Gainesville, FL: Sandhill Crane Press, 1993 .-- P. 1-536.
Links
- Ben-Dov, Y. Acanthopulvinaria discoidalis (English) . Scale insect web catalog . scalenet.info (26th of June, 2014). - Taxonomy. Date of treatment June 30, 2014. (unavailable link)
- Acanthopulvinaria discoidalis (English) . eol.org. - Taxonomy. Date of treatment June 30, 2014.