Valid Names Results

Aspidiotus putearius Green, 1896 (Diaspididae: Aspidiotus)

Nomenclatural History

• Aspidiotus putearius Green 1896e: 54. Type data: SRI LANKA: Punduloya, on Strobilanthes viscosus.. Syntypes, female, Type depository: London: The Natural History Museum, England, UK; accepted valid name Illustr.
• Aspidiotus (Aspidiotus) putearius Green, 1896; Cockerell 1897i: 28. change of combination
• Hemiberlesia putearia (Green, 1896); Leonardi 1897b: 131. change of combination requiring emendation of specific epithet for agreement in gender
• Cryptophyllaspis putearia (Green, 1896); MacGillivray 1921: 427. change of combination requiring emendation of specific epithet for agreement in gender
• Aspidiotus (Hemiberlesia) putearius Green, 1896; Green 1937: 333. change of combination
• Aspidiotus putearius Green, 1896; Borchsenius 1966: 267. revived combination (previously published)

Common Names

Ecological Associates

Hosts:

Families: 1 | Genera: 1

Geographic Distribution

Keys

• Ferris1946: pp.43 ( Adult (F) ) [World]
• Ferris1941e: pp.61 ( Adult (F) ) [World]
• Green1896e: pp.40 ( Adult (F) ) [Sri Lanka]

Remarks

• Structure: Female scale round, flat or slightly concave, forming an operculum to the pit-like depression in which the insect rests; colour very pale brownish ochreous, semi-opaque; minutely rugose, with concentric lines of growth; exuviae central, pale yellow; second exuvia slightly concave, the first slightly convex; ventral scale obsolete, a mere powdery film lining the cavity below the insect; diameter 1.5 mm. Male scale broadly oval; similar in texture to that of the female; median area convex where it covers the insect; size 1 x 1.2mm (Green, 1896e). Colour illustration of scale cover by Green (1896e). Scale of the female round, flat or slightly concave, forming an operculum to the pit-like depression in which the insect rests; colour very pale brownish, ochreous, semiopaque.... exuviae central, pale yellow..." (Ferris, 1941e).
• Biology: Forming small pits on the undersides of the leaves (Ferris, 1941e).
• General Remarks: Description and illustration of adult female by Green (1896e) and by Ferris (1941e).

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