Valid Names Results

Halimococcus borassi Green, 1922 (Halimococcidae: Halimococcus)

Nomenclatural History

• Halimococcus borassi Green 1922: 360. Type data: SRI LANKA: Peradeniya, Royal Botanic Gardens, on Borassus flabelliformis. Syntypes, female, Type depository: 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 ten slides in the USNM marked "type material." Illustr.

Common Names

Ecological Associates

Hosts:

Families: 1 | Genera: 1

Geographic Distribution

Keys

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

Remarks

• Structure: Adult female body elongate elliptical; segmentation distinguished on ventral surface of thorax caudad of rostrum, on abdomen, and on dorsum of the 3 or 4 posterior abdominal segments. Typical specimen is 0.58 mm long and 0.28 mm wide (Stickney, 1934).
• General Remarks: Detailed description and illustration of egg, first instar, both sexes second instar, adult female, male by Stickney (1934).

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