Species Coccus acaciae (Newstead, 1917)
- Lecanium acaciae Newstead, R. 1917. Observations on scale-insects (Coccidae) – III. Bulletin of Entomological Research 7: 343-380 [355].
Ecological Descriptors
Sap-feeder.
SYSTEMATICS
De Lotto, G. 1957. On some Ethiopian species of the genus Coccus (Homoptera: Coccoidea: Coccidae). Journal of the Entomological Society of Southern Africa 20: 295–314 [301] erroneously synonymized C. acaciae with Coccus elongatus of Authors [= Coccus longulus ]. Ben-Dov, Y. 1977. Taxonomy of the long brown scale Coccus longulus (Douglas) stat. n. (Homoptera: Coccidae). Bulletin of Entomological Research 67: 89–95 [94] removed the former from the synonymy.
General References
De Lotto, G. 1957. The Pseudococcidae (Hom.: Coccoidea) described by H.C. James from East Africa. Bulletin of the British Museum (Natural History) Entomology (Supplement) 5: 185-232 [301] (Coccus elongatus: misidentification discovered by /