Valid Names Results
Acutaspis perseae (Comstock, 1881) (Diaspididae: Acutaspis)Nomenclatural History
- Aspidiotus perseae Comstock 1881a: 305. Type data: USA: Florida, Cedar Keys, on leaves of red bay, Persea carolinensis.. Syntypes, female, Type depository: Washington: United States National Entomological Collection, U.S. National Museum of Natural History, District of Columbia, USA; accepted valid name Illustr.
- Aspidiotus (Chrysomphalus) perseae Comstock, 1881; Cockerell 1897i: 22. change of combination
- Chrysomphalus perseae (Comstock, 1881); Leonardi 1897: 286. change of combination
- Pseudischnaspis perseae (Comstock, 1881); Lindinger 1911: 355. change of combination
- Acutaspis perseae (Comstock, 1881); Ferris 1941d: 332. change of combination
- Chrysomphalus (Acutaspis) perseae (Comstock, 1881); Merrill 1953: 38. change of combination
- Acutaspis perseae (Comstock, 1881); Borchsenius 1966: 355. revived combination (previously published)
Common Names
- red bay scale Comsto1881a Merril1953 MerrilCh1923
Ecological Associates
Hosts:
Families: 18 | Genera: 24
- Adoxaceae
- Viburnum | Ferris1941d MerrilCh1923
- Aquifoliaceae
- Ilex | MerrilCh1923
- Araceae
- Anthurium | Ferris1941d MerrilCh1923
- Anthurium harrisii | Morgan1889a
- Arecaceae
- Cocos nucifera | Ferris1941d
- Sabal | Ferris1941d
- Sabal minor | NormarOkMo2019
- Serenoa repens | BesheaTiHo1973
- Cactaceae
- Harrisia | MerrilCh1923
- Celastraceae
- Euonymus | Ferris1941d Lepage1938
- Ericaceae
- Lyonia | Merril1953 | (= Xolisma)
- Lyonia ferruginea | Merril1953
- Lyonia fruticosa | MerrilCh1923 | (= Xolisma fruticosa)
- Lyonia lucida | TippinBe1970
- Pieris phillyreifolia | Merril1953 | (= Ampelothamnus phillyreifolius)
- Fabaceae
- Dussia | PetersHaMo2020s1
- Lauraceae
- Ocotea insularis | NormarOkMo2019 | (= Ocotea ira)
- Persea | Ferris1941d
- Persea americana | Ferris1941d Lepage1938 | (= Persea gratissima)
- Persea borbonia | BesheaTiHo1973
- Persea carolinensis | Comsto1881a McDani1968 Wilson1917
- Magnoliaceae
- Magnolia | Ferris1941d Lepage1938 McDani1968
- Magnolia grandiflora | Dekle1965c Wilson1917
- Malpighiaceae
- Malpighia emarginata | MartinWoCu2022
- Myrtaceae
- Eugenia uniflora | MartinWoCu2022
- Oleaceae
- Olea | Ferris1941d
- Osmanthus | Merril1953
- Orchidaceae
- Bletia | Ferris1941d
- Laelia | Ferris1941d
- Pinaceae
- Pinus | Balach1951 Ferris1941d
- Santalaceae
- Phoradendron leucarpum | Ferris1941d | (= Phoradendron flavescens)
- Theaceae
- Gordonia | MerrilCh1923
- Zamiaceae
- Zamia | Ferris1941d
- Zamia floridana | Dekle1965c
- Zamia pumila | MerrilCh1923
Geographic Distribution
Countries: 11
- Brazil
- Espirito Santo | MartinWoCu2022
- Rio Grande do Sul | Ferris1941d Lepage1938
- Rio de Janeiro | Ferris1941d Lepage1938
- Colombia | KondoMu2016
- Cuba | Nakaha1982
- France | FoldiGe2018
- Mexico | Cocker1899n
- Oaxaca | Ferris1941d
- Sinaloa | Ferris1941d
- Veracruz | Ferris1941d
- Panama | NormarOkMo2019 SchneiOkNo2018
- Trinidad and Tobago
- Trinidad | Nakaha1982
- Ukraine
- Kiev Oblast | Danzig1993
- United Kingdom
- England | Morgan1889a
- United States
- Alabama | Nakaha1982
- Florida | Dekle1965c Ferris1941d Merril1953 MerrilCh1923 Wilson1917
- Georgia | BesheaTiHo1973 TippinBe1970
- Louisiana | Nakaha1982
- Mississippi | Ferris1941d Herric1911
- Missouri | Hollin1923
- Oklahoma | Nakaha1982
- South Carolina | Nakaha1982
- Tennessee | Nakaha1982
- Texas | McDani1968
- Venezuela | Ferris1941d | Nakaha1982
Keys
- WeiScNo2021: pp.17-23 ( Adult (F) ) [Aspidiotini from Panama]
- EvansWaMi2009: pp.63-67 ( Adult (F) ) [Diaspididae species found on avocado]
- McDani1968: pp.202 ( Adult (F) ) [U.S.A.: Texas]
- Ferris1942: pp.28 ( Adult (F) ) [North America]
- Hollin1923: pp.29 ( Adult (F) ) [U.S.A.: Missouri]
- Cocker1905: pp.45-46 ( Adult (F) ) [Mexico]
- Newste1901b: pp.82 ( Adult (F) ) [England]
- Comsto1883: pp.55-57 ( Adult (F) ) [North America]
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. perseae, A. perseae is nested within A. morrisonorum in one instance and within A. umbonifera in another.
- Structure: Scale of the female flat, rather thin, circular, with the exuviae central, color dark reddish brown; that of the male not recognized (Ferris, 1941d).
- Biology: Occurring characteristically on the leaves (Ferris, 1941d).
- Economic Importance: Considered a pest of red bay, Persea barbonia (Miller & Davidson, 1990), and in Bermuda of Juniperus bermudiana (Schmutterer et al., 1957). Of no economic importance in Florida (Dekle, 1976).
- General Remarks: Description and illustration of adult female by Ferris (1941d) and by Tereznikova (1986).
Illustrations
Citations
- Balach1951: description, distribution, host, illustration, taxonomy, 594-597
- BeardsDaHo1976: economic importance, 106
- BenDovGe2003: catalog, 46-48
- BesheaTiHo1973: distribution, host, 4
- Borchs1937: description, distribution, host, illustration, taxonomy, 120
- Borchs1939: description, distribution, host, taxonomy, 11,44
- Borchs1950b: description, distribution, host, illustration, taxonomy, 222
- Borchs1966: catalog, 355
- ClapsWoGo2001a: distribution, host, taxonomy, 10
- Cocker1896b: distribution, 334
- Cocker1896f: description, distribution, host, taxonomy, 33-34
- Cocker1897i: description, distribution, host, taxonomy, 22
- Cocker1897k: description, distribution, host, taxonomy, 90
- Cocker1899n: distribution, host, 25
- Cocker1905: taxonomy, 46
- Comsto1881a: description, distribution, host, illustration, taxonomy, 305-306
- Comsto1883: distribution, host, taxonomy, 65
- Danzig1964: distribution, host, taxonomy, 651-652
- Danzig1993: description, distribution, host, illustration, taxonomy, 239-240
- DanzigPe1998: catalog, 175
- Dekle1965c: description, distribution, host, taxonomy, 16
- Dekle1976: description, distribution, economic importance, host, taxonomy, 26
- EvansWaMi2009: taxonomy, 63-67
- Fernal1903b: 292
- Ferris1941d: description, distribution, host, illustration, taxonomy, 332
- Ferris1941e: taxonomy, 47
- Ferris1942: taxonomy, 446:28
- Foldi2001: distribution, 303-308
- FoldiGe2018: distribution, 9
- Gavril2018: reproduction, 233
- Green1930b: taxonomy, 219
- Herric1911: description, distribution, host, illustration, taxonomy, 11,33-34,68
- Hollin1923: description, distribution, host, taxonomy, 31
- KondoMu2016: distribution, host, illustration, 3
- KondoWa2022a: distribution, host, list, 13
- Leonar1897: taxonomy, 286
- Leonar1899: taxonomy, 199,200,223
- Lepage1938: catalog, 400
- Lindin1909c: distribution, host, taxonomy, 449
- Lindin1911: taxonomy, 355
- Lindin1921: distribution, host, 428
- Lindin1935: taxonomy, 149
- Lindin1936c: distribution, host, 155
- Lindin1957: taxonomy, 544
- LongoMaPe1995: distribution, 125
- MacGil1921: description, distribution, host, taxonomy, 420
- Maranh1946: taxonomy, 164-179
- MartinWoCu2022: distribution, host, 3
- McDani1968: distribution, host, illustration, taxonomy, 204
- McKenz1939: taxonomy, 54
- Merril1953: description, distribution, host, taxonomy, 38-40
- MerrilCh1923: description, distribution, economic importance, host, taxonomy, 225-226
- MillerDa1990: distribution, economic importance, host, 300
- Morgan1889a: distribution, host, taxonomy, 350
- Nakaha1982: distribution, host, 4
- Newste1901b: description, distribution, host, illustration, taxonomy, 82,112-114
- Newste1920: description, distribution, host, taxonomy, 197
- NormarOkMo2019: distribution, host, phylogeny, 11, S2, S6
- PetersHaMo2020s1: DNA, distribution, host,
- Schmut1959: description, distribution, host, taxonomy, 45
- SchmutKlLu1957: distribution, economic importance, host, 492
- SchneiFiNo2019: key, taxonomy, 92
- SchneiOkNo2018: phylogenetics, phylogeny,
- Terezn1986: description, distribution, host, illustration, taxonomy, 83-84
- TippinBe1970: distribution, host, 8
- VitoriZaMa2013: description, distribution, host, 176-179
- WaltmaRaWi2016: distribution, 231
- Watson2001: list, 177
- WeiScNo2021: key, 21
- Willia2017a: catalog, list of species, 229
- Wilson1917: distribution, host, 54-55
- WolffPuSi2004: biological control, distribution, host, 355-361
