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: 3 | Genera: 3

Geographic Distribution

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).

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