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Aonidomytilus incisus Ferris, 1943 (Diaspididae: Aonidomytilus)

Nomenclatural History

• Aonidomytilus incisus Ferris 1943: 73-74. Type data: UNITED STATES: Arizona, Coconino County, north of the Navajo Bridge, House Rock Valley, on Eurotia lanatum, 1940, by G.F. Ferris. Syntypes, female, Type depository: Davis: The Bohart Museum of Entomology, University of California, California, USA; accepted valid name Illustr.

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Hosts:

Families: 1 | Genera: 1

Geographic Distribution

Keys

• Ferris1943: pp.75 ( Adult (F) ) [Revised key to the species of Aonidomytilus]

Remarks

• Systematics: In the extreme minuteness or complete absence of gland spines, combined with the presence of perivulvar pores, this species approaches most closely Aonidomytilus ceanothi. It seems to be distinct, differing in the sculptured pygidial margin, in the fact that this margin shows no such tendency to roll over and obscure the marginal features as appears in A. ceanothi, the marked difference in size between the marginal and dorsal pygidial macroducts and in the absence of even the smallest gland spines or tubercles on any of the prepygidial segments. The median pygidial lobes seem also to be definitely more widely separated than is the case in A. ceanothi (Ferris, 1941).
• Structure: Scale of female white or gray, elongate and rather slender. Adult female 1.5mm long, body fusiform, derm membranous throughout except for the rather weakly sclerotized pygidium (Ferris, 1943).
• General Remarks: Best description and illustration by Ferris (1943).

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