Valid Names Results
Diaspidiotus coniferarum (Cockerell, 1898) (Diaspididae: Diaspidiotus)Nomenclatural History
- Aspidiotus (Diaspidiotus) coniferarum Cockerell 1898e: 201. Type data: U.S.A.: New Mexico, Organ Mts., on a small pine tree, (Pinus ponderosa var. scopulorum).. Syntypes, female, Type depository: Washington: United States National Entomological Collection, U.S. National Museum of Natural History, District of Columbia, USA; accepted valid name
- Aspidiotus conirerarum; Newell 1899: 21. misspelling of genus name
- Hemiberlesia coniferarum (Cockerell, 1898); Leonardi 1900: 338. change of combination
- Diaspidiotus coniferarum (Cockerell, 1898); Cockerell 1905b: 202. change of combination
- Comstockaspis coniferarum (Cockerell, 1898); MacGillivray 1921: 439. change of combination
- Diaspidiotus conferarum (Cockerell, 1898); McKenzie 1956: 62. misspelling of species epithet
- Diaspidiotus coniferarum (Cockerell, 1898); Borchsenius 1966: 323. revived combination (previously published)
- Diaspispidiotus coniferarum; Williams, D.J. 2017a: 221. misspelling of genus name
Common Names
- conifer scale Dekle1965c McKenz1956
Ecological Associates
Hosts:
Families: 2 | Genera: 7
- Cupressaceae
- Calocedrus decurrens | Ferris1920b McKenz1956 | (= Libocedrus decurrens)
- Cupressus | Ferris1938a
- Cupressus guadalupensis | Ferris1920b McKenz1956
- Cupressus macrocarpa | McKenz1956
- Cupressus sargentii | Ferris1938a McKenz1956
- Juniperus | Ferris1938a Koszta1996
- Juniperus deppeana | Ferris1938a McDani1969 McKenz1956 | (= Juniperus pachyphlaea)
- Juniperus monosperma | Ferris1938a McDani1969 McKenz1956
- Juniperus occidentalis | McKenz1956
- Juniperus virginiana | BesheaTiHo1973 Dekle1965c Ferris1938a McDani1969 McKenz1956 TippinBe1970
- Libocedrus | Koszta1996
- Pinaceae
- Abies | Koszta1996
- Pinus | Ferris1920b Koszta1996
- Pinus ponderosa | Cocker1898e Ferris1938a Leonar1900 McDani1969 McKenz1956 | var. scopulorum
- Tsuga canadensis | BesheaTiHo1973
Geographic Distribution
Countries: 2
- Mexico
- Baja California Norte | Ferris1938a
- United States
- Alabama | WaltmaRaWi2016
- Arizona | Nakaha1982
- California | Ferris1920b McKenz1956
- Colorado | Nakaha1982
- Florida | Dekle1965c
- Georgia | BesheaTiHo1973 TippinBe1970
- Indiana | Nakaha1982
- Kansas | Nakaha1982
- Louisiana | Nakaha1982
- Mississippi | Ferris1938a
- New Mexico | Cocker1898e Ferris1920b Leonar1900
- Oregon | Nakaha1982
- South Carolina | Nakaha1982
- Texas | Ferris1938a McDani1969
- Utah | Ferris1938a
- Virginia | Nakaha1982
Keys
- Gill1997: pp.113 ( Adult (F) ) [Species of California]
- Koszta1996: pp.484-485 ( Adult (F) ) [Northeastern North America]
- McDani1969: pp.90-91 ( Adult (F) ) [U.S.A.: Texas]
- McKenz1956: pp.25 ( Adult (F) ) [U.S.A.: California]
- Ferris1942: pp.33 ( Adult (F) ) [North America]
- Cocker1905b: pp.202 ( Adult (F) ) [U.S.A.: Colorado]
- Newell1899: pp.4-5 ( Adult (F) ) [North America]
Remarks
- Structure: Scale of the female whitish or gray, usually nearly the color of the bark, subcircular, flat, exuviae subcentral. Scale of the male not observed (Ferris, 1938a). Colour photograph by Gill (1997).
- Biology: Scales occur on the bark of the smaller limbs, never on the foliage (Ferris, 1938a).
- General Remarks: Description and illustration of adult female by Ferris (1920b, 1938a), McKenzie (1956) and by Gill (1997).
Illustrations
Citations
- BenDovGe2003: catalog, 356-357
- BesheaTiHo1973: distribution, host, 6
- Borchs1966: catalog, 323
- Cocker1898e: description, distribution, host, taxonomy, 201
- Cocker1899a: taxonomy, 396
- Cocker1905b: taxonomy, 202
- CockerPa1899: description, distribution, host, taxonomy, 284
- Dekle1965c: description, distribution, host, taxonomy, 49
- Dekle1976: description, distribution, economic importance, host, taxonomy, 68
- FDACSB1982: distribution, host, 5-11
- Fernal1903b: 255
- Ferris1920b: description, distribution, host, illustration, taxonomy, 49-50
- Ferris1938a: description, distribution, host, illustration, taxonomy, 218
- Ferris1941e: taxonomy, 42
- Ferris1942: taxonomy, 446:33
- Gill1997: description, distribution, economic importance, host, illustration, taxonomy, 115,119
- Koszta1996: description, distribution, host, illustration, life history, taxonomy, 490-491
- Leonar1900: distribution, host, taxonomy, 338
- MacGil1921: description, distribution, host, taxonomy, 439
- McDani1969: distribution, host, illustration, taxonomy, 93,95
- McKenz1956: description, distribution, host, illustration, taxonomy, 60,62
- Nakaha1982: distribution, host, 28
- Newell1899: description, distribution, host, taxonomy, 21
- SchneiFiNo2019: key, taxonomy, 92
- Takagi1958: taxonomy, 124
- TippinBe1970: distribution, host, 8
- WaltmaRaWi2016: distribution, 231
- Willia1985a: catalog, taxonomy, 233
- Willia2017a: catalog, list of species, 221
- Zahrad1990: description, distribution, host, 643
