Valid Names Results

Aclerda digitata (Cockerell, 1902) (Aclerdidae: Aclerda)

Pseudolecanium digitatum Cockerell 1902a: 24. Type data: SOUTH AFRICA: Natal, Richmond, on leaves of grass. Syntypes, female, Type depository: Washington: United States National Entomological Collection, U.S. National Museum of Natural History, District of Columbia, USA; accepted valid name
Aclerda digitata (Cockerell, 1902); Fernald 1903b: 210. change of combination

Families: 1 | Genera: 1

Countries: 1

Systematics: "The type slides of this species are in the United States National Collection, but they are in poor condition for study, especially the slides of the adult females and intermediate stages. Larval specimens from one slide produced some favorable specimens for study by additional clearing and staining. Careful study of all available material contributed some additional information, but insufficient to justify placing this species in any one of the genera assigned to the family Aclerdidae in this paper. The additional information found would seem to indicate a closer relationship to the genus Rhodesaclerda than to either of the other two genera. This is particularly true of the larvae, in that some of the abdominal segments have only one marginal spine on each side. It is the author's opinion that when favorable material of this species has been procured, it will be found to belong in an unrecognized genus" (McConnell, 1954).
General Remarks: Description and illustration of the adult female given by Brain (1920a) and McConnell (1954).