Valid Names Results

Graminorthezia graminis (Tinsley, 1898) (Ortheziidae: Graminorthezia)

Nomenclatural History

• Orthezia graminis Tinsley 1898: 13-14. Type data: UNITED STATES: New Mexico, Mesilla Valley, on unknown Gramineae, on 26/09/1897. Syntypes, female, Type depository: Washington: United States National Entomological Collection, U.S. National Museum of Natural History, District of Columbia, USA; accepted valid name Notes: There are 9 syntype slides in the USNM.
• Graminorthezia graminis (Tinsley, 1898); Kozár 2004: 278. change of combination

Common Names

• grass ensign scale Gill1993

Ecological Associates

Hosts:

Families: 2 | Genera: 2

Foes:

Families: 1 | Genera: 1

Geographic Distribution

Keys

• Vea2014: pp.3-4 ( Adult (M) ) [Species of the Ortheziidae Based on Adult Males]
• Kozar2004: pp.272-273 ( Adult (F) ) [Key to the species of Graminorthezia]
• Gill1993: pp.77 ( Adult (F) ) [Morphological key to California Ortheziidae]
• Gill1993: pp.75 ( Adult (F) ) [Field key to California Ortheziidae]
• Morris1952: pp.9 ( Adult (F) ) [Species in the Graminis group of Orthezia]
• Morris1925: pp.108 ( Adult (F) ) [Species of the Subgenus Orthezia]
• MacGil1921: pp.112 ( Adult (F) ) [Orthezia species]

Remarks

• Structure: Adult female piceous, having subdorsal and lateral keels. Between the keels the body is naked and black. Larvae are black with white longitudinal bands, legs and antennae sepia (Tinsley, 1898). Mounted male: Body length 1.9 mm. Antenna nearly 1.17× body length (as opposed to 1.3 to 2.0 in other genera), most segments approximately subequal in length, with numerous fleshy setae randomly distributed. Body hairlike setae when visible, broad with a blunt apex; loculate pores, simple minute pores, and minute convex pores usually not visible. (Vea, 2014)
• General Remarks: Most detailed description and illustration by Morrison (1925). Change of combination, redescription and illustration by Kozár (2004). Detailed description of adult male in Vea (2014).

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