Valid Names Results

Cryptoparlatoreopsis meccae (Hall, 1927) (Diaspididae: Cryptoparlatoreopsis)

Nomenclatural History

• Targionia meccae Hall 1927c: 263-265. Type data: SAUDI ARABIA: Mecca, on Zizyphus sp., 10/07/1926, by Mohd. Taha. Syntypes, female, Type depository: London: The Natural History Museum, England, UK; accepted valid name Illustr.
• Aonidia meccae (Hall, 1927); Balachowsky 1932d: 46. change of combination
• Cryptoparlatoreopsis meccae (Hall, 1927); Balachowsky 1951: 244. change of combination

Common Names

• mecca scale AbdRabEv2021

Ecological Associates

Hosts:

Families: 3 | Genera: 3

Geographic Distribution

Keys

• MoghadWa2021: pp.74 ( Adult (F) ) [Cryptoparlatoreopsis in Iran]
• Moghad2021: pp.374 ( Adult (F) ) [Cryptoparlatoreopsis species]
• Balach1958b: pp.244 ( Adult (F) ) [Key to African species of Cryptoparlatoreopsis]
• Balach1951: pp.616 ( ) [Key to species of Cryptoparlatoreopsis]

Remarks

• Systematics: Cryptoparlatoreopsis meccae is close to C. tlaiae, but differs in the shape of the lobes and in the shorter setae on the pygidium (Takahashi, 1939d).
• Structure: Female scale circular, convex and dirty white in color. The color is of the thin covering of secretionary matter which is easily knocked off revealing the shiny brown almost reddish brown, puparium underneath (Hall, 1927). Slide-mounted adult female subpyriform. Anterior spiracles each associated with 2–4 trilocular disc pores; posterior spiracles not associated with pores. Pygidium with 2 pairs of lobes (L1 and L2); third lobe (L3) absent or represented by a sclerotized prominence. Median lobes (L1) each bluntly pointed, with single notch on outer margin; second lobes (L2) smaller than L1, pointed. Plates absent from pygidial margins but replaced by small, fleshy finger-like processes. (Moghaddam & Watson, 2021)
• General Remarks: Best description by Hall (1927c) and Balachovsky (1951).

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