Genus Acanthomytilus Borchsenius, 1947

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• Acanthomytilus Borchsenius, N.S. 1947. On three new species of scales (Coccoidea, Diaspididae) from central Asia. Doklady Akademii Nauk SSSR 58: 343-344 [in Russian] [344].

  Type species:

   Lepidosaphes intermittens Hall, 1924 by monotypy.

 

Distribution

IBRA and IMCRA regions

drainage basins and coastal and oceanic zones

IBRA

Qld: Brigalow Belt North (BBN), Brigalow Belt South (BBS), Central Mackay Coast (CMC), Cape York Peninsula (CYP), Desert Uplands (DEU), Einasleigh Uplands (EIU), NSW North Coast (NNC), South Eastern Queensland (SEQ), Wet Tropics (WT)

Australian Region

• Australia
  • Queensland: NE coastal

Genus Note

The genus has been recorded from Magnetic Island, QLD, Australia by D.J. Williams for a species that comes near A. sacchari Hall but has fewer ducts on the seventh segment and a square pygidium. It differs also from A. imperatae (Kuw.) and A. miscanthi (Tak.) described from Japan.

 

General References

Takagi, S. 1970. Diaspididae of Taiwan based on material collected in connection with the Japan-U.S. Co-operative Science Programme, 1965 (Homoptera: Coccoidea) Part 2. Insecta Matsumurana 33: 1-146 [24-25] (as Acanthomytilus; description)