Valid Names Results

Graminorthezia monticola (Cockerell, 1898) (Ortheziidae: Graminorthezia)

Nomenclatural History

• Orthezia monticola Cockerell 1898t: 402. Type data: UNITED STATES: New Mexico, Organ Mountains, Dripping Spring, on unidentified Gramineae, ?/08/1898, by T.D.A. Cockerell. 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: Two slides, one labeled "co-type" one labeled "type" in USNM.
• Graminorthezia monticola (Cockerell, 1898); Kozár 2004: 284. change of combination

Common Names

Ecological Associates

Hosts:

Families: 1 | Genera: 1

Geographic Distribution

Keys

• Kozar2004: pp.272-273 ( Adult (F) ) [Key to the species of Graminorthezia]
• Morris1952: pp.8 ( 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 body is pale brown, while the legs and antennae are a dark brown. Dorsal surface is naked, except for a little mealy powder and two median rows of small white waxy tufts. Ovisac is broad, not curled upwards. Specimens were collected from 5600 feet above sea level (Cockerell, 1898q).
• General Remarks: Original description by Cockerell (1898q). More detailed description and illustration by Morrison (1925). Change of combination, redescription and illustration by Kozár (2004).

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