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Acantholecanium Borchsenius, 1949 (Coccidae)

Acantholecanium Borchsenius 1949b: 339. Type species: Ctenochiton haloxyloni Hall by monotypy and original designation . accepted valid name

Systematics: Subfamily: Coccinae. Tribe: Saissetiini.
Structure: Live adult female broadly oval to circular, highly convex. Margin with a series of broad, rounded protuberant rays. Slide-mounted, body lacking stigmatic clefts. Marginal setae conical. Stigmatic setae not differentiated from marginal setae. Anal cleft fairly short. Ventral tubular ducts of more than 1 type, one type with both inner and outer ductules very broad, present in a broad submarginal band from anterior to antennae to about abdominal segment II, but absent from anterior end between antennae. Legs very much reduced, each with tibia and tarsus fused and trochanter indistinct (Moghaddam & Watson 2024).
General Remarks: Definition of the genus has been given by Borchsenius (1949b, 1950b, 1957), Ezzat & Hussein (1969), Tang (1991) and by Hodgson (1994a).