Valid Names Results
Aonidomytilus hyperici Ferris, 1941 (Diaspididae: Aonidomytilus)Nomenclatural History
- Aonidomytilus hyperici Ferris 1941d: SIII-273. Type data: UNITED STATES: Mississippi, Lyman, on Hypericum sp., ?/06/1940, by H.H. Keifer. Holotype, female, Type depository: Davis: The Bohart Museum of Entomology, University of California, California, USA; accepted valid name Illustr.
Common Names
- hypericum scale Dekle1965c
Ecological Associates
Hosts:
Families: 2 | Genera: 2
- Cistaceae
- Cistus | Koszta1996
- Hypericaceae
- Hypericum densiflorum | Ferris1941d
- Hypericum glomeratum | Ferris1941d
- Hypericum hypericoides | Koszta1996
Geographic Distribution
Countries: 1
- United States
- Alabama | WaltmaRaWi2016
- District of Columbia | Koszta1996
- Florida | Dekle1965c
- Georgia | BesheaTiHo1973
- Louisiana | Miller2005
- Mississippi | Ferris1941d
- North Carolina | Ferris1941d
- Virginia | Koszta1996
Keys
- Koszta1996: pp.421 ( Adult (F) ) [Key to species of Aonidomytilus of Northeastern North America]
- Ferris1943: pp.74 ( Adult (F) ) [Revised key to the species of Aonidomytilus]
- Ferris1942: pp.SIV-446:48 ( Adult (F) ) [Species of Aonidomytilus]
Remarks
- Systematics: This species is distinguished by the perivulvar pores with the prominent and acute median and second lobes (Ferris, 1941d).
- Structure: Female scale is pale brown or yellowish in color. Adult female 1.8mm long, slender, margins of the prepygidial abdominal segments rather strongly lobed; derm membranous throughout except for the pygidium (Ferris, 1941d).
- Biology: Scale of female occurs on twigs hidden under bark flakes and shreds, male scale usually on leaves (Ferris, 1941d).
- General Remarks: Detailed description and illustration by Ferris (1941d).
Illustrations
Citations
- BesheaTiHo1973: distribution, host, 9
- Borchs1966: catalog, distribution, host, taxonomy, 41
- Dekle1965c: description, distribution, host, 9, 24
- FDACSB1983: distribution, host, 8
- Ferris1941d: description, distribution, host, illustration, taxonomy, SIII-273
- Ferris1942: distribution, host, taxonomy, SIV-446:48
- Ferris1943: host, taxonomy, 74
- Koszta1963: host, taxonomy, 57
- Koszta1996: description, distribution, host, illustration, taxonomy, 422, 424-425
- Merril1953: description, distribution, host, 15
- Miller2005: distribution, 485
- MuseWi1984: host, physiology, 375, 376
- Nakaha1982: distribution, host, 10
- PooleGe1997: distribution, 346
- WaltmaRaWi2016: distribution, 231
