Valid Names Results

Kermes nawae Kuwana, 1902 (Kermesidae: Kermes)

Nomenclatural History

• Kermes nawae Kuwana 1902: 49-50. Type data: JAPAN: Honshu, Fukui-ken, on Quercus glandulifera by Nawa. Holotype, female, by original designation Type depository: Davis: The Bohart Museum of Entomology, University of California, California, USA; accepted valid name Notes: Type material was originally placed in the Stanford collection, which is now part of the UCDC collection. Illustr.
• Coccus nawae (Kuwana, 1902); Cockerell 1929b: 150. change of combination
• Talla nawae (Kuwana, 1902); Lindinger 1933a: 143. change of combination
• Kermococcus nawae (Kuwana, 1902); Borchsenius 1960d: 50. change of combination Notes: Ferris, 1921: 157 rejected the Silvestri substitution of Kermococcus for Kermes as not justified under the International Code and considered it a synonym. Borchsenius used Kermococcus as a proper replacement.
• Kermes nawai Jia, Huang, Xu, Long, Yan & Wu 2004: 75-78. misspelling of both genus and species names

Common Names

• Nawa globular scale KSPP1972

Ecological Associates

Hosts:

Families: 2 | Genera: 3

Foes:

Families: 1 | Genera: 1

Geographic Distribution

Keys

• Yang1982: pp.117 ( Adult (F) ) [Species of Kermes]
• Paik1978: pp.173 ( Adult (F) ) [Key to species of Kermococcus] Key as: Kermococcus nawae
• Borchs1960d: pp.35 ( Adult (F) ) [Species of Kermococcus] Key as: Kermococus nawae
• Kanda1932a: pp.553 ( Adult (F) ) [Japanese species of Kermes]
• Kuwana1931: pp.17 ( Adult (F) ) [Key to Kermes species]
• Kuwana1931: pp.17 ( Immature (F) ) [Key to Kermes species]

Remarks

• Structure: Newly hatched larva is elongate oval, more or less acute at both extremities and pale yellow in color. Adult female is variable in size, nearly circular, chestnut brown in color with transverse black bands, shiny and thinly covered with a white powdery secretion (Kuwana, 1931).
• Economic Importance: A discussion of spatial distribution and control on Castanea mollissima is given by Yan et al. (2001).

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