Valid Names Results

Kermes himalayensis Green, 1909 (Kermesidae: Kermes)

Nomenclatural History

• Kermes himalayensis Green 1909: 10. Type data: INDIA: N.W. Himalayas, above Bhim Tal, on Quercus incana, by E.P. Stebbing. Syntypes, female, Type depository: London: The Natural History Museum, England, UK; Washington: United States National Entomological Collection, U.S. National Museum of Natural History, District of Columbia, USA; accepted valid name Illustr.
• Coccus himalayensis (Green, 1909); Cockerell 1929b: 150. change of combination
• Talla himalayensis (Green, 1909); Lindinger 1933a: 143. change of combination Notes: Morrison & Morrison, 1966 synonymized the genus Talla von Heyden with Kermes Boitard creating the combination Kermes himalayensis.

Common Names

• ban oak grey scale Stebbi1909

Ecological Associates

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Families: 1 | Genera: 2

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Remarks

• Structure: Adult female approximately hemispherical, sometimes slightly oblong, with a broad base of attachment, often much distorted by crowding. Ground color varying from milky-white to fulvous or pale castaneous, closely marbled and spotted, the markings varying from dark castaneous to black. To the naked eye the pattern appears to be in the form of 3 longitudinal series of large irregular spots (Green, 1909).
• General Remarks: Best description and illustration by Green (1909).

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