Valid Names Results
Acutaspis morrisonorum Kosztarab, 1963 (Diaspididae: Acutaspis)Nomenclatural History
- Acutaspis morrisonorum Kosztarab 1963: 18. Type data: U.S.A.: Ohio, Wooster, Secrest Arboretum, on Tsuga caroliniana.. Holotype, female, Type depository: Washington: United States National Entomological Collection, U.S. National Museum of Natural History, District of Columbia, USA; accepted valid name Illustr.
Common Names
- round conifer scale Dekle1965c Koszta1996
Ecological Associates
Hosts:
Families: 3 | Genera: 9
- Cupressaceae
- Chamaecyparis thyoides | Dekle1965c
- Cupressus duclouxiana | Koszta1963
- Juniperus | Dekle1965c Koszta1963
- Juniperus bermudiana | Koszta1963
- Juniperus virginiana | Koszta1963 BesheaTiHo1973 Koszta1963 TippinBe1970 | including var. glauca
- Thuja | Dekle1965c
- Pinaceae
- Abies concolor | Koszta1963
- Picea pungens | Koszta1963
- Pinus | Koszta1963
- Pinus elliottii | Dekle1965c
- Pinus palustris | NormarOkMo2019
- Pinus taeda | Koszta1963
- Tsuga | Koszta1963
- Tsuga canadensis | BesheaTiHo1973 Koszta1963
- Tsuga caroliniana | Koszta1963
- Taxaceae
- Torreya taxifolia | Dekle1965c Koszta1963
Geographic Distribution
Countries: 4
- Bermuda | Koszta1996
- Canada
- Quebec | Koszta1963 Koszta1996
- Puerto Rico & Vieques Island
- Puerto Rico | ColonFMe1998
- United States
- Alabama | Koszta1963 USDAAP1978
- Arkansas | Koszta1963
- Florida | Dekle1965c Koszta1963
- Georgia | BesheaTiHo1973 TippinBe1970
- Louisiana | Koszta1963 Koszta1996
- Massachusetts | Koszta1963 Koszta1996
- Michigan | Koszta1996
- North Carolina | Nakaha1982
- Ohio | Koszta1996
- Pennsylvania | Koszta1963 Koszta1996
- Tennessee | Nakaha1982
- Virginia | Koszta1963 Koszta1996
Keys
Remarks
- Systematics: The phylogenies in Schneider, et al., (2018) highlight several problematic species with questionable boundaries. Several Acutaspis species are interdigitated within the Melanaspis clade, including A. morrisonorum.
- Structure: Scale of the adult female slightly oval, flat, yellowish-brown, lighter on the margin, with the exuviae central. First nymphal exuviae with white margin. Length 1.5 mm, width 1.125 mm (Kosztarab, 1963).
- General Remarks: Description and illustration of adult female by Kosztarab (1963, 1993, 1996) and by Colon-Ferrer & Medina-Gaud (1998).
Illustrations
Citations
- BenDovGe2003: catalog, 43-44
- BesheaTiHo1973: distribution, host, 4
- Borchs1966: catalog, 355
- ColonFMe1998: distribution, host, taxonomy, 3
- ColonFMe1998: description, distribution, host, illustration, taxonomy, 34
- Dekle1965c: description, distribution, host, taxonomy, 15
- Dekle1976: description, distribution, economic importance, host, taxonomy, 25
- FDACSB1987: distribution, host, 4-7
- Koszta1963: description, distribution, host, illustration, taxonomy, 18-20
- Koszta1996: description, distribution, host, illustration, taxonomy, 420-421
- Nakaha1982: distribution, host, 4
- NormarOkMo2019: distribution, host, phylogeny, 11, S2, S6
- SchneiFiNo2019: key, taxonomy, 92
- SchneiOkNo2018: phylogenetics, phylogeny,
- TippinBe1970: distribution, host, 7
- USDAAP1978: distribution, host, 1-4,6
- WaltmaRaWi2016: distribution, 231
