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Diaspidiotus mesembryanthemae (Brain, 1919) (Diaspididae: Diaspidiotus)

Aonidia mesembryanthemae Brain 1919: 216. Type data: SOUTH AFRICA: Natal, Durban, on fleshy leaves of Mesembryanthemum edule; collected 20.iv.1915.. Lectotype, female, by subsequent designation (Muntin1970a,39). Type depository: Pretoria: South African National Collection of Insects, South Africa; accepted valid name Illustr.
Aonidia mesembryanthemi Brain, 1919; Lindinger 1932f: 196. emendation that is unjustified (discovered by Borchs1966, 364).
Diaspidiotus mesembryanthemae (Brain, 1919); Normark, et al. 2019: 60. change of combination

Families: 1 | Genera: 1

Countries: 1

Muntin1965b: pp.189 ( Adult (F) ) [South Africa] Key as: Aonidia mesembryanthemae

Structure: The dorsal scale of the adult female is about 1.5 mm long and 1 mm broad, white, thin, translucent, very delicate with the buff-coloured larval exuviae central. Male scale about 1 mm. long, slightly more elongate and more convex than the female scale, white to buff in colour, with yellowish larval exuviae (Brain, 1919).
Biology: The developing scale induces the formation of pits on fleshy leaves of Mesembryanthemum edule (Brain, 1919).
General Remarks: Description and illustration of adult female by Brain (1919) and by Balachowsky (1958b).