Valid Names Results
Icerya minor Green, 1908 (Monophlebidae: Icerya)Nomenclatural History
- Icerya minor Green 1908a: 17. Type data: INDIA: Bengal, Pusa, on mango, collected H.M. Lefroy.. Lectotype, female, male, and first instar, by subsequent designation (UnruhGu2008b,87). Type depository: London: The Natural History Museum, England, UK; accepted valid name Illustr.
- Leachia festiva Kieffer 1909: 163. Type data: INDIA: Bengal, Manresa House near Ranchi, on underside of leaves of Mangifera indica.. Syntypes, male, junior synonym (discovered by Morris1928, 223). Notes: Type material lost (D. Matile-Ferrero, personal information to Y. Ben-Dov). Illustr.
Common Names
Ecological Associates
Hosts:
Families: 7 | Genera: 7
- Anacardiaceae
- Mangifera indica | Green1908a Kieffe1909 Vayssi1926
- Apocynaceae
- Alstonia scholaris | ChowdhRa2025
- Fabaceae
- Cassia javanica | ChowdhRa2025
- Moraceae
- Artocarpus heterophyllus | ChowdhRa2025
- Myrtaceae
- Psidium guajava | Rao1951
- Rutaceae
- Citrus | Rao1951
- Citrus maxima | ChowdhRa2025 | (=Citrus grandis)
- Citrus medica | ChowdhRa2025
- Sapotaceae
- Manilkara zapota | ChowdhRa2025 | (=Achras sapota)
Geographic Distribution
Countries: 2
- Bangladesh | Varshn1992
- India
- Assam | Rao1951
- Bihar | Mohamm1963
- Uttar Pradesh | Rao1951
- West Bengal | Green1908a Kieffe1909 Vayssi1926
Keys
- JoshiNaVe2021: pp.209 ( Adult (F) ) [Icerya in India]
- Gavril2018: pp.179-182 ( Adult (F) ) [Species of Icerya]
- UnruhGu2008b: pp.72-73 ( Adult (F) ) [Species of Icerya]
- TangHa1995: pp.155-156, 615-616 ( Adult (F) ) [Asia]
- Rao1951a: pp.157 ( Adult (F) ) [South East Asia]
- Morris1928: pp.208-211 ( Adult (F) ) [Species of Icerya]
Remarks
- Systematics: Leachia festira sp.n. Kieffer, 1909, as listed in Zoological Records for the year 1908, p. 410, is a mis-spelling of Leachia festiva Kieffer. The junior synonym Leachia festiva Kieffer, 1909, was described from the male and nymph.
- Structure: Adult female with short, stout, opaque white, waxy processes, arranged symmetrically in median dorsal, dorso-lateral, and marginal series. Body purplish above, yellowish orange beneath. Ovisac covering the ventral area of abdomen (Green, 1908a).
- General Remarks: Description and illustration of adult female by Green (1908a), Vayssiere (1926) and by Rao (1951). Description of adult female by Unruh & Gullan (2008b).
Illustrations
Citations
- BenDov2005a: catalog, distribution, host, taxonomy, 201-202
- ChowdhRa2025: distribution, ecology, host, illustration, phenology,
- Foldi2001a: taxonomy, 203
- Gavril2018: key, taxonomy, 176,182
- Green1908a: description, distribution, host, illustration, taxonomy, 17-18
- JoshiNaVe2021: key, 209
- Kieffe1909: description, distribution, host, illustration, taxonomy, 163-165
- KondoKa1995a: distribution, host, 97-98
- Mohamm1963: distribution, host, taxonomy, 124-125
- Morris1928: taxonomy, 208,210,225
- Rao1951: description, distribution, host, illustration, taxonomy, 41,62-64
- TangHa1995: description, taxonomy, 155-156,160
- UnruhGu2008: phylogeny, taxonomy, 8-50
- UnruhGu2008b: description, distribution, host, taxonomy, 87
- Varshn1992: distribution, host, 14
- Vayssi1926: description, distribution, host, illustration, taxonomy, 319,330
- Willia2017a: catalog, list of species, 243
