Valid Names Results
Diaspis mihiriya Green, 1922 (Diaspididae: Diaspis)Nomenclatural History
- Diaspis mihiriya Green 1922a: 1014-1015. Type data: SRI LANKA: Bogawantalawa, on Dichopsis grandis. Syntypes, female, Type depository: Eberswalde: Institut fur Pflanzenschutzforschung, Germany; accepted valid name Illustr.
Common Names
Ecological Associates
Hosts:
Families: 1 | Genera: 1
- Sapotaceae
- Palaquium grande | Green1922a | (= Dichopsis grandis)
Geographic Distribution
Countries: 1
- Sri Lanka | Green1922a
Keys
Remarks
- Structure: Puparium of adult female pale ochreous, opaque; very irregularly circular or broadly ovate, very slightly convex; exuviae eccentric, often projecting beyond the margin. Male cover snowy white, very obscurely tricarinate, thickly covered with dense white secretionary matter which completely conceals the exuviae. Adult female sub-circular, pygidium broadly rounded (Green, 1922a).
- General Remarks: Best description and illustration by Green (1922a).
Illustrations
Citations
- Ali1970: catalog, distribution, host, taxonomy, 16
- Borchs1966: catalog, distribution, host, taxonomy, 172
- Gaedik1971: distribution, host, 337
- Green1922a: description, distribution, host, illustration, taxonomy, 1014-1015
- Green1937: catalog, distribution, host, 315
- Ramakr1926: distribution, host, 456
- Takagi2011: illustration, taxonomy, 49
- Varshn2002: distribution, host, 63
- Willia2017a: catalog, list of species, 227
