Valid Names Results

Bambusaspis longa (Green, 1896) (Asterolecaniidae: Bambusaspis)

Nomenclatural History

• Planchonia miliaris longa Maskell 1895b: 62. nomen nudum
• Planchonia miliaris longa Green 1896: 5. Type data: SRI LANKA: Punduloya, on Arundinaria sp.. Syntypes, female, by original designation Type depository: London: The Natural History Museum, England, UK; accepted valid name Illustr.
• Asterolecanium miliaris longum (Green, 1896); Cockerell 1896b: 328. change of combination (discovered by Green1909a, 336).
• Asterolecanium lanceolatum Green 1909a. replacement name that is a synonym (discovered by Russel1941, 122). Replacement name for Asterolecanium lineare Green, 1909a
• Asterolecanium lineare Green 1909a: 336. Type data: SRI LANKA: Pundaluoya, on leaves of Arundinaria sp.. Syntypes, female, male, and first instar, by original designation Type depository: London: The Natural History Museum, England, UK; synonym and homonym (discovered by Russel1941, 122). Notes: Homonym of Asterolecanium lineare Lindinger Illustr.
• Asterolecanium longum (Green, 1896); Russell 1941: 122. change of combination and rank
• Bambusaspis longus (Green, 1896); Tang & Hao 1995: 374. change of combination
• Bambusaspis longa (Russell, 1941); Ben Dov 2006b: 78. emendation that is unjustified

Common Names

Ecological Associates

Hosts:

Families: 1 | Genera: 5

Geographic Distribution

Keys

• Hodgso2020: pp.181-182 ( Adult (M) ) [Asterolecaniidae]
• Russel1941: pp.12-26 ( Adult (F) ) [Species of Asterolecanium]
• Russel1941: pp.26-35 ( Immature (F) ) [Species of Asterolecanium]

Remarks

• Systematics: In Green 1909a, he stated that the part of the specimens that he had designated as Planchonia miliaris longa in 1896 were not a subspecies of Asterolecanium miliaris. He redescribed them as a new species Asterolecanium lineare sp. nov. and stated that this species "differs from A. miliaris by the proportionately narrower and more elongate tests of the female, by the simpler and more obscure fringe, and by the paucity and obscureness of the marginal 8-shaped spinnerets." (Green, 1909a), Russell (1941) realized that the other misidentified specimens were the same as ,Asterolecanium miliaris robustum, and she revived the older name, Asterolecanium longum as the valid name of this species.
• Structure: The adult males of B. longa belong to the group of asterolecaniid males that have some very long setae on their antennae. It differs from the others in having the following combination of character-states: (i) themembranous area of scutum with reticulations, and (ii) a penial sheath several times longer than basal width. (Hodgson, 2020)
• General Remarks: Description and illustration of adult female by Russell (1941).

  Although this species was reported as occurring in Florida by Merrill and Chaffin (1923), the identification of the specimens was probably based on the description in Green (1915), a misidentification of Bambusaspis robusta.discovered by Russell (1941). It has not been reported in Florida since that time.

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