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Acutaspis erythraspidis (Newstead, 1917) (Diaspididae: Acutaspis)

Aspidiotus (Chrysomphalus) erythraspidis Newstead 1917: 372. Type data: GUYANA: Turkeyn, on Erythraspis [=Erythrina] glauca.. Syntypes, female, Type depository: London: The Natural History Museum, England, UK; accepted valid name Illustr.
Chrysomphalus erythraspidis (Newstead, 1917); MacGillivray 1921: 420. change of combination
Pseudischnaspis erythraspidis (Newstead, 1917); Lindinger 1937: 194. change of combination
Aspidiotus erythraspidis Newstead, 1917; McKenzie 1939: 54. change of combination
Acutaspis erythraspidis (Newstead, 1917); Borchsenius 1966: 354. change of combination

Families: 1 | Genera: 1

Countries: 1

Structure: Female scale more or less circular or irregularly ovate, moderately convex, surface more or less roughened by the fibers of the plant upon which it was fixed; pale brownish buff or greyish buff, sometimes with slightly darker lines of growth; underside blackish, margin similar in colour to the exterior; exuviae central, subcentral or submarginal, black; the secretionary covering greyish, but usually absent from the larval exuviae; maximum diameter 1.7-2.1 mm. Male scale dark brown or brownish black, margin paler; larval exuviae black, with a narrow, but sharply defined, concentric ring of white secretion (Newstead, 1917).
General Remarks: Description and illustration of the female by Newstead (1917). This species was described from material off Erythraspis glauca. There is no such plant genus Erythraspis and Newstead must have mistaken the plant for Erythrina glauca (Leguminosae), often used as a shade tree in cacao plantations.