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Albastaspis nivea (Maskell, 1895) (Diaspididae: Albastaspis)

Mytilaspis nivea Maskell 1895b: 46. Type data: AUSTRALIA: New South Wales, Bankstown, Near Sydney, on Melaleuca nodosa, by W.W. Froggatt. Syntypes, female, Type depository: Auckland: New Zealand Arthropod Collection, Landcare Research, New Zealand; accepted valid name Notes: Type material also in USNM. Illustr.
Lepidosaphes nivea (Maskell, 1895); Fernald 1903b: 312. change of combination
Albastaspis nivea (Maskell, 1895); MacGillivray 1921: 290. change of combination
Chionaspis nivea (Maskell, 1895); Lindinger 1932f: 203. change of combination
Trichomytilus nivea (Maskell, 1895); Lindinger 1933a: 165. change of combination

Families: 1 | Genera: 2

Countries: 1

Cocker1899f: pp.14 ( Adult (F) ) [Australian species of Mytilaspis] Key as: Mytilaspis nivea

Systematics: This species is close to Mytilaspis casuarinae, but differs principally in the four conical lobes and in the stronger marginal spines (Maskell, 1895b). Laing (1929) states that Froggatt's report of A. nivea on Calycothrix (1915) may actually be Lepidosaphes subnivea.
Structure: Female cover elongated, usually straight, narrow, snowy-white. Pellicles terminal, yellow. Adult female brown. Adult male yellow. (Maskell, 1895b).
Biology: Scales are usually so massed together that they form a snowy heap on the twig (Maskell, 1985b).