Valid Names Results

Andaspis laingi Rao in Rao & Ferris, 1952 (Diaspididae: Andaspis)

Nomenclatural History

• Lepidosaphes punctatissima Ramakrishna Ayyar 1924: 341. nomen nudum (discovered by RaoFe1952, 20). Notes: The name was originally a manuscript name by E.E. Green.
• Lepidosaphes hawaiiensis indica Ramakrishna Ayyar 1937: 147. nomen nudum (discovered by Ali1969, 69).
• Andaspis laingi Rao in Rao & Ferris 1952: 20. Type data: INDIA: Tamil Nadu, Coimbatore, on Albizzia lebbek and Pithecollobium (=Samanea) saman, by Ramakrishna Ayyar. Holotype, female, Type depository: London: The Natural History Museum, England, UK; accepted valid name Illustr.

Common Names

Ecological Associates

Hosts:

Families: 1 | Genera: 4

Foes:

Families: 1 | Genera: 1

Geographic Distribution

Keys

• Matile1988: pp.30 ( ) [Key to species of Andaspis on Leguminosae]
• Borchs1967: pp.725 ( Adult (F) ) [Key to species of Andaspis]
• Willia1963b: pp.25 ( Adult (F) ) [Key to species of Andaspis]
• RaoFe1952: pp.22 ( ) [Key to species of Andaspis]

Remarks

• Systematics: This species is quite close to A. hawaiiensis from which it differs most conspicuously in the presence of a wide gap between the cluster of small ducts on the first pygidial segment and the transverse band of such ducts on the first prepygidial segment (Rao & Ferris, 1952).
• General Remarks: Detailed description and illustration by Rao & Ferris (1952).

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