Valid Names Results

Diaspidiotus cryptoxanthus (Cockerell, 1900) (Diaspididae: Diaspidiotus)

Nomenclatural History

• Aspidiotus (Diaspidiotus) cryptoxanthus Cockerell 1900f: 71. Type data: JAPAN: on Quercus glandulifera.. 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 cryptoxanthus Cockerell, 1900; Fernald 1903b: 255. change of combination
• Aspidiotus crytoxanthus Cockerell, 1900; Kuwana 1917a: 176. misspelling of species epithet
• Quadraspidiotus cryptoxanthus (Cockerell, 1900); MacGillivray 1921: 411. change of combination
• Diaspidiotus cryptoxanthus (Cockerell, 1900); Danzig & Pellizzari 1998: 230. change of combination

Common Names

Ecological Associates

Hosts:

Families: 1 | Genera: 2

Foes:

Families: 1 | Genera: 1

Geographic Distribution

Keys

• Chou1985: pp.311 ( Adult (F) ) [Species of China]
• Kuwana1933: pp.3 ( Adult (F) ) [Japan]
• Kuwana1933b: pp.49 ( Adult (F) ) [Japan]

Remarks

• Structure: Female scale on bark of twigs, almost invisible, its color being that of the bark; about 1.2 mm diameter; circular to suboval; often massed, very slightly convex; with covered deep orange-red exuviae, very conspicuous when exposed by rubbing; young scales with a dot and ring; scales removed from the bark leave a whitish patch (Cockerell, 1900f).
• General Remarks: Description and illustration of adult female by Kuwana (1933) and by Takagi (1958, 1974).

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