Valid Names Results
Lepidosaphes cortrioides (Froggatt, 1914) (Diaspididae: Lepidosaphes)Nomenclatural History
- Mytilaspis cortrioides Froggatt 1914: 609. Type data: AUSTRALIA: New South Wales, Mittagong, on Acacia decurrens. Syntypes, female, Type depository: Orange: Agricultural Scientific Collections Unit, Orange Agricultural Institute, NSW, Australia; accepted valid name
- Lepidosaphes cortrioides (Froggatt, 1914); Sasscer 1915: 37. change of combination
Common Names
Ecological Associates
Hosts:
Families: 1 | Genera: 1
- Fabaceae
- Acacia decurrens | Frogga1914
Geographic Distribution
Countries: 1
- Australia
- New South Wales | Frogga1914
Keys
Remarks
- Structure: Female cover forming parallel ridges along the sides of the small branches, light reddish brown, straight, rather short, somewhat flattened along the dorsal surface. Exuviae pale yellow, shield-shaped. Adult female dull yellow, irregularly oval, tip of abdomen rounded, with two large irregularly rounded lobes projecting beyond the margin, widely separated from each other and somewhat serrate on the extremities. Pygidium thick and opaque (Froggatt, 1914).
- General Remarks: Best description by Froggatt (1914).
Illustrations
Citations
- Borchs1966: catalog, distribution, host, taxonomy, 48
- Frogga1914: description, distribution, host, taxonomy, 609
- Frogga1915: description, distribution, host, taxonomy, 38
- Sassce1915: taxonomy, 37
- Willia2017a: catalog, list of species, 221
