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Arivonimaspis vernoniae Mamet, 1962 (Diaspididae: Arivonimaspis)Nomenclatural History
- Arivonimaspis vernoniae Mamet 1962: 192. Type data: MADAGASCAR: Arivonimamo, on twigs, 3/1957, by R. Paulian. Holotype, female, by original designation Type depository: Paris: Museum National d'Histoire naturelle, France; accepted valid name Notes: A paratype was deposited in the collection of the Institut Scientifique de Madagascar. Illustr.
Common Names
Ecological Associates
Hosts:
Families: 1 | Genera: 1
- Asteraceae
- Vernonia polygalifolia | Mamet1962
Geographic Distribution
Countries: 1
- Madagascar | Mamet1962
Keys
Remarks
- Systematics: Adult female almost circular, membranous. Pygidium broad and rather short, median lobes fused together, rounded at apex, without any apical notch, with a small duct between their bases. Second, third and fourth lobes each represented by an incrassation of the pygidial margin. Marginal ducts with soewhat sclerotized apertures, not conspicuously differing in size from the other dorsal ducts. (Mamet, 1962).
- Structure: Scale of female somewhat conical, pale to dark brown. Exuviae subcentral; larval exuvia golden yellow, shiny. (Mamet, 1962).
- General Remarks: Description and illustration (handwritten change in text: Illustration on page 198, labeled Fig 18) in Mamet, 1962.
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Citations
- Mamet1962: description, distribution, illustration, structure, taxonomy, 192-194, 198