Valid Names Results

Aonidomytilus peninsularis (Ferris, 1921) (Diaspididae: Aonidomytilus)

Nomenclatural History

• Lepidosaphes peninsularis Ferris 1921: 118-119. Type data: MEXICO: Baja California Sur, near La Paz, on Porophyllum gracilis, 1919, by G.F. Ferris. Holotype, female, by original designation Type depository: Davis: The Bohart Museum of Entomology, University of California, California, USA; accepted valid name Illustr.
• Aonidomytilus peninsularis (Ferris, 1921); Ferris 1936a: 24. change of combination

Common Names

Ecological Associates

Hosts:

Families: 3 | Genera: 3

Geographic Distribution

Keys

• McDani1971: pp.275 ( Adult (F) ) [Key to the Texas species of the genus Aonidomytilus Leonardi]
• Ferris1943: pp.75 ( Adult (F) ) [Revised key to the species of Aonidomytilus]
• Ferris1942: pp.SIV-446:48 ( Adult (F) ) [Species of Aonidomytilus]

Remarks

• Systematics: This species can be told from Aonidomytilus concolor by having the median lobes smaller and slightly or not at all notched. Both of the median lobes and second lobes are rather weakly sclerotized (McDaniel, 1971).
• Structure: Scale of female about 3mm long, straight, white or slightly brown; exuviae covered with secretion. Scale of male similar to that of female, but smaller. Adult female about 2mm long, derm membranous except for the pygidium; margins of the abdominal segments projecting but little, without gland spines but with numerous small ducts. Dorsum of abdomen practically without ducts (Ferris, 1921).
• General Remarks: Detailed description and illustration by Ferris (1921).

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