Valid Names Results
Hemiberlesia ocellata Takagi & Yamamoto, 1974 (Diaspididae: Hemiberlesia)Nomenclatural History
- Hemiberlesia (Abgrallaspis) ocellata Takagi & Yamamoto 1974: 40. Type data: ECUADOR: intercepted at quarantine at Kobe, Japan, on banana.. Holotype, female, Type depository: Sapporo: Entomological Institute, Faculty of Agriculture, Hokkaido University, Japan; accepted valid name Illustr.
Common Names
Ecological Associates
Hosts:
Families: 1 | Genera: 1
- Musaceae
- Musa | TakagiYa1974
Geographic Distribution
Countries: 3
- Ecuador | TakagiYa1974
- Honduras | NormarMoKr2014
- Japan | TakagiYa1974
Keys
- NormarMoKr2014: pp.46-47 ( Adult (F) ) [Modifications to Ferris's 1942 key to the species of North American Hemiberlesia to include both South American and North American species]
Remarks
- Structure: The species is well characterized by having divergent median lobes, much elongate plates laterally to the third lobes, peculiar ductiferous tubercles on the pygidial ventrum, and much elongate marginal setae. Takagi & Yamamoto (1974) did not describe the scale cover.
- Economic Importance: Chua & Wood (1990) listed this species as a pest of banana in Ecuador.
- General Remarks: Description and illustration of adult female by Takagi & Yamamoto (1974).
Illustrations
Citations
- BenDovGe2003: catalog, 548-549
- ChuaWo1990: distribution, economic importance, host, 548
- KondoWa2022a: distribution, host, list, 16
- NormarMoKr2014: taxonomy, 47
- SchneiFiNo2019: key, taxonomy, 92
- SugimoKaTa1996: distribution, host, 99-101
- TakagiYa1974: description, distribution, host, illustration, taxonomy, 40-42
