Valid Names Results
Diaspidiotus botanicus (Gómez-Menor Ortega, 1927) (Diaspididae: Diaspidiotus)Nomenclatural History
- Aspidiotus botanicus Gómez-Menor Ortega 1927a: 295. Type data: SPAIN: Madrid, Botanic Garden, on Buxus sempervirens.. Lectotype, female, by subsequent designation (BlayGo1993,605). Type depository: Madrid: Museo Nacional de Ciencias Naturales, Spain; accepted valid name
- Diaspidiotus botanicus (Gómez-Menor Ortega, 1927); Balachowsky 1950b: 506. change of combination
Common Names
Ecological Associates
Hosts:
Families: 1 | Genera: 1
- Buxaceae
- Buxus sempervirens | Balach1935b BlayGo1993 GomezM1927a GomezM1946 Martin1983
Geographic Distribution
Countries: 1
Keys
- Balach1950b: pp.493 ( Adult (F) ) [Mediterranean]
Remarks
- Structure: Female scale more or less circular, diameter 1.3-1.5 mm; convex; exuviae central, yellow gold. Male scale elliptical, slightly convex; anterior part wider than posterior; exuviae yellow, subcentral, rest of scale grey, white at margin; ventral scale white (Gómez-Menor Ortega, 1927a).
- General Remarks: Description and illustration of adult female by Gómez-Menor Ortega (1927a), (Balachowsky (1950b) and by Blay Goicoechea (1993).
Illustrations
Citations
- Balach1935b: distribution, host, 257
- Balach1950b: description, distribution, host, illustration, taxonomy, 506-509
- BenDovGe2003: catalog, 350-351
- BlayGo1993: description, distribution, host, illustration, taxonomy, 605-609
- Borchs1966: catalog, 322
- DanzigPe1998: catalog, 229
- Ferris1941e: taxonomy, 41
- GomezM1927a: description, distribution, host, taxonomy, 295-298
- GomezM1937: description, distribution, host, illustration, taxonomy, 67-70
- GomezM1946: distribution, host, 61
- GomezM1958a: distribution, host, 7
- Lindin1957: taxonomy, 545
- Martin1983: distribution, host, taxonomy, 63
