Acantholecanium, Borchsenius

Moghaddam, Masumeh & Watson, Gillian W., 2024, The Scale Insects Of Iran (Hemiptera: Coccomorpha) Part 3 The Soft Scales (Coccidae) And Other Families, Zootaxa 5542 (1), pp. 1-202 : 37

Genus ACANTHOLECANIUM Borchsenius

Acantholecanium Borchsenius, 1949a: 339 . Type species: Ctenochiton haloxyloni Hall by monotypy and original designation.

Diagnostic characters of the adult female: Live adult female broadly oval to circular, highly convex. Margin with a series of broad, rounded protruberant 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.

Comments: Acantholecanium is a monotypic genus apparently restricted to the Middle East, including Iran and eastern North Africa ( García Morales et al. 2016).