Open AccessEPICOCCUS COCKERELL AND ITS TYPE‐SPECIES, EPICOCCUS ACACIAE (MASKELL), REDESCRIBED (HOMOPTERA: COCCOIDEA: PSEUDOCOCCIDAE)
Author(s) -
Brookes Helen M.
Publication year - 1982
Publication title -
australian journal of entomology
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
eISSN - 1440-6055
pISSN - 1326-6756
DOI - 10.1111/j.1440-6055.1982.tb01802.x
Subject(s) - homoptera , biology , botany , genus , type species , loranthaceae , type (biology) , taxonomy (biology) , ecology , pest analysis
The monotypic genus Epicoccus is redescribed. E. acaciae is redescribed and illustrated from specimens not hitherto available—live specimens and spirit specimens collected on Acacia from several localities in Western Australia and South Australia.