Valid Names Results

Albastaspis grisea (Maskell, 1890) (Diaspididae: Albastaspis)

Mytilaspis grisea Maskell 1890: 133-134. Type data: AUSTRALIA: New South Wales, on Eucalyptus sp. and Acacia sp.. Syntypes, female, Type depository: Auckland: New Zealand Arthropod Collection, Landcare Research, New Zealand; Washington: United States National Entomological Collection, U.S. National Museum of Natural History, District of Columbia, USA; accepted valid name Illustr.
Lepidosaphes grisea (Maskell, 1890); Fernald 1903b: 310. change of combination
Scrupulaspis grisea (Maskell, 1890); MacGillivray 1921: 288. change of combination
Lepidosaphes grisea (Maskell, 1890); Borchsenius 1966: 49. revived combination (previously published)
Albastaspis grisea (Maskell, 1890); Wei, Normark, and Normark 2026: 28. change of combination

Families: 2 | Genera: 2

Countries: 1

MacGil1921: pp.288 ( Adult (F) ) [Key to species of Scrupulaspis] Key as: Scrupulaspis grisea
Leonar1903: pp.31 ( Adult (F) ) [Key to species of Mytilaspis] Key as: Mytilaspis grisea
Cocker1899f: pp.14 ( Adult (F) ) [Australian species of Mytilaspis] Key as: Mytilaspis grisea

Structure: Female cover light grey, narrowish, elongate, slightly curved, convex, rather solid, mussel-shaped; pellicles rather small. Male cover similar, but much smaller, not carinated. Adult female dark red or nearly black, elongate (Maskell, 1890).
General Remarks: Best description and illustration by Maskell (1890).