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Andaspis crawii is now Lepidosaphes crawii (Cockerell, 1896) (Diaspididae: Lepidosaphes)

Nomenclatural History

• Mytilaspis crawii Cockerell 1896g: 44-45. Type data: JAPAN: on Elaeagnus. Syntypes, female, Type depository: Washington: United States National Entomological Collection, U.S. National Museum of Natural History, District of Columbia, USA; accepted valid name
• Mytilaspis crawii canaliculata Maskell 1897: 304-305. Type data: JAPAN: Honshu, Yokohama. Unknown type status, unknown, 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; junior synonym (discovered by Borchs1966, 70).
• Lepidosaphes crawii (Cockerell, 1896); Fernald 1903b: 307. change of combination
• Lepidosaphes crawii canaliculata (Maskell, 1897); Fernald 1903b: 307. change of combination
• Mytilaspis Crawi Cockerell, 1896; Leonardi 1903: 30. misspelling of species epithet
• Lepidosaphes crawi (Cockerell, 1896); Lindinger 1907a: 19. misspelling of species epithet
• Lepidosaphes canaliculata (Maskell, 1897); MacGillivray 1921: 280. change in status (level)
• Andaspis crawii (Cockerell, 1896); Rao & Ferris 1952: 18. change of combination
• Lepidosaphes crawi (Cockerell, 1896); Normark, et al. 2019: 61. change of combination and misspelling of species epithet

Common Names

Ecological Associates

Hosts:

Families: 3 | Genera: 4

Geographic Distribution

Keys

• Chou1982: pp.189 ( Adult (F) ) [Key to Chinese species of Andaspis] Key as: Andaspis crawii
• YoungHu1981a: pp.215 ( ) [Species of Andaspis]
• Willia1963b: pp.26 ( Adult (F) ) [Key to species of Andaspis] Key as: Andaspis crawii
• Takagi1960: pp.97 ( Adult (F) ) [Key to species of Andaspis] Key as: Andaspis crawii
• RaoFe1952: pp.22 ( Adult (F) ) [Key to species of Andaspis] Key as: Andaspis crawii
• Kuwana1925a: pp.4 ( Adult (F) ) [Key to species of Lepidosaphes] Key as: Lepidosaphes crawii
• MacGil1921: pp.280 ( Adult (F) ) [Species of Lepidosaphes] Key as: Lepidosaphes canaliculata
• MacGil1921: pp.280 ( Adult (F) ) [Species of Lepidosaphes] Key as: Lepidosaphes crawii
• Leonar1903: pp.30 ( Adult (F) ) [Species of Mytilaspis] Key as: Mytilaspis crawi

Remarks

• Systematics: In Taiwan, Andaspis crawii is represented by two forms. One form is not different from the Japanese form, having a few submedian dorsal macroducts on each of abd III-Y. The other form has more submedian macroducts, which may occur also on abd II and VI (Takagi, 1970).
• Structure: Adult female much elongated and very slender, the abdomen only slightly lobed laterally. Median pygidial lobes of a distinctive form, triangular in form, but the apex rather broadly rounded, the posterior margin minutely serrate (Rao & Ferris, 1952).
• Biology: This scale is extremely inconspicuous, as it lives beneath the epidermis on the underside of the leaf, along the midrib. Several specimens were found parasitised (Cockerell, 1896g).
• General Remarks: Description and illustration by Rao & Ferris (1952).

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