Valid Names Results
Diaspis townsendi Cockerell, 1899 (Diaspididae: Diaspis)Nomenclatural History
- Diaspis townsendi Cockerell 1899n: 28. Type data: MEXICO: Aguas Calientes, on Prosopis sp., 01/05/1898. Syntypes, female, Type depository: London: The Natural History Museum, England, UK; Washington: United States National Entomological Collection, U.S. National Museum of Natural History, District of Columbia, USA; accepted valid name
Common Names
Ecological Associates
Hosts:
Families: 2 | Genera: 2
- Fabaceae
- Prosopis | Cocker1899n
- Malvaceae
- Guazuma | Borchs1966
Geographic Distribution
Countries: 2
- Mexico
- Aguascalientes | Cocker1899n
- United States
- Alabama | WaltmaRaWi2016
Keys
- Ferris1942: pp.SIV-446:52 ( Adult (F) ) [Key to species of Diaspis]
- MacGil1921: pp.321 ( Adult (F) ) [Key to species of Diaspis]
Remarks
- Systematics: Diaspis townsendi is highly variable, but extremely close to D. texensis, differing significantly, only in the somewhat heavier median lobes and in the absence or marked reduction of the outer lobule of the second lobes (Ferris, 1937).
- Structure: Female scale is dirty to snow white, more or less oval; exuviae dark reddish-brown, placed to one side. Male scale with only one keel, and that feeble; some specimens woolly, resembling a mealybug male pupa (Cockerell, 1899n).
- General Remarks: Detailed description and illustration by Ferris (1937).
Illustrations
Citations
- Borchs1966: catalog, distribution, host, taxonomy, 174
- Cocker1899n: description, distribution, host, taxonomy, 28
- Cocker1902d: taxonomy, 58
- Cocker1902t: distribution, host, 471
- Fernal1903b: distribution, host, taxonomy, 232
- Ferris1937: description, distribution, host, illustration, taxonomy, SI-37, SI-44
- Ferris1942: taxonomy, SIV-446:52
- MacGil1921: distribution, host, taxonomy, 321
- WaltmaRaWi2016: distribution, 231
- Willia2017a: catalog, list of species, 234
