Valid Names Results

Ancepaspis edentata (Ferris, 1919) (Diaspididae: Ancepaspis)

Nomenclatural History

• Protodiaspis edentata Ferris 1919a: 48. Type data: UNITED STATES: Arizona, near Vail, on Acacia greggii. Holotype, female, Type depository: Davis: The Bohart Museum of Entomology, University of California, California, USA; accepted valid name
• Ancepaspis edentata (Ferris, 1919); Ferris 1920: 32. change of combination

Common Names

Ecological Associates

Hosts:

Families: 1 | Genera: 1

Geographic Distribution

Keys

• Ferris1942: pp.SIV-446:66 ( Adult (F) ) [Species of Ancepaspis]
• MacGil1921: pp.365 ( Adult (F) ) [Species of Protodiaspis]

Remarks

• Systematics: This species most closely resembles Ancepaspis anomala (Ferris, 1919a).
• Structure: Adult female with pygidium smoothly rounded, bearing 4 small spines along its margin. On the dorsal side the anterior portion appears to be somewhat elevated above the remainder and separated from the remainder by a curving line. Anterior to this line the derm is rather weakly chitinized. The ventral side of the pygidium appears not to be sharply separated from the abdomen. The second stage female with derm heavily chitinized (Ferris, 1919a).
• General Remarks: Description and illustration by Ferris (1919a).

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