Anophococcus formicicola (Newstead, 1897)

Mifsud, David, Mazzeo, Gaetana, Russo, Agatino & Watson, Gillian W., 2014, The scale insects (Hemiptera: Coccoidea) of the Maltese Archipelago, Zootaxa 3866 (4), pp. 499-525 : 513

publication ID	https://doi.org/10.11646/zootaxa.3866.4.3
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DOI	https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.5494880
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scientific name	Anophococcus formicicola (Newstead, 1897)
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Borg (1932) recorded this species (as Eriococcus formicola [sic.]) as common on Cynodon dactylon on both Malta and Gozo. Hoy (1963) and Kozár et al. (2013) included Malta in the distribution range of this species. No Maltese specimens have been seen during the present work.

References

Borg, J. (1932) Scale Insects of the Maltese Islands. Government Printing Office, Malta, 20 pp.

Hoy, J. M. (1963) A catalogue of the Eriococcidae of the World. New Zealand Department of Scientific and Industrial Research Bulletin, 150, 1 - 260.

Kozar, F., Kaydan, M. B., Konczne Benedicty, Z. & Szita, E. (2013) Acanthococcidae and related families of the Palaearctic Region. Hungarian Academy of Sciences, Budapest, Hungary, 679 pp.