Valid Names Results

Lepidosaphes crassa (Froggatt, 1914) (Diaspididae: Lepidosaphes)

Mytilaspis crassa Froggatt 1914: 609. Type data: AUSTRALIA: New South Wales, Bowral, on Melaleuca sp.. Syntypes, female, Type depository: Orange: Agricultural Scientific Collections Unit, Orange Agricultural Institute, NSW, Australia; accepted valid name
Lepidosaphes crassa (Froggatt, 1914); Sasscer 1915: 37. change of combination

Families: 1 | Genera: 1

Countries: 1

Structure: Female cover snow white, pellicle dull yellow, peg-shaped, carinated, fitting closely into the base of the scale, covered with white secretion. Scale very convex, narrowed into a neck behind the 1st exuviae, the 2nd exuviae covered with white secretion forming the neck, swelling out, short and broadly rounded. Adult female light yellow, cephalic portion narrow rounded, rest oval, pygidium chitinous, other margin showing no distinct lobes, but indented round the edges in a crenulated pattern, the whole very finely striated (Froggatt, 1914).
General Remarks: Best description by Froggatt (1914).