Valid Names Results
Aonidia pusilla Green, 1905 (Diaspididae: Aonidia)Nomenclatural History
- Aonidia pusilla Green 1905a: 347. Type data: SRI LANKA: Northern Province, Elephant Pass, on Carissa spinarum.. Syntypes, female, Type depository: London: The Natural History Museum, England, UK; accepted valid name Illustr.
Common Names
Ecological Associates
Hosts:
Families: 1 | Genera: 1
- Apocynaceae
- Carissa spinarum | Green1905a Green1922 Ramakr1921a
Geographic Distribution
Countries: 1
- Sri Lanka | Green1905a Green1922 Green1937 Ramakr1921a
Keys
Remarks
- Structure: Female scale oval, yellow; obscured - in very fresh examples - by a thin covering of whitish secretion which, in older examples, persists only as a marginal fringe, leaving the yellow nymphal pellicle exposed. Total length 0.50 mm. Male scale oval; somewhat larger, but much less convex: pellicle pale-yellow, occupying anterior two-thirds of scale: secretionary area whitish, translucent. Length 0.65 mm. (Green, 1905a).
- General Remarks: Description and illustration of adult female by Green (1905a).
Illustrations
Citations
- BenDovGe2003: catalog, 75
- Borchs1966: catalog, 364
- Green1905a: description, distribution, host, illustration, taxonomy, 347-348
- Green1922: distribution, host, 463
- Green1937: catalog, distribution, host, 337
- MacGil1921: description, distribution, host, taxonomy, 463
- Ramakr1921a: catalog, distribution, host, 359
- Sander1906: catalog, distribution, host, taxonomy, 16
- Varshn2002: distribution, host, 19
