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Lepidosaphes giffardi (Adachi & Fullaway, 1953) (Diaspididae: Lepidosaphes)

Pseudoparlatoria giffardi Adachi & Fullaway 1953: 87-89. Type data: UNITED STATES: Hawaii, Oahu, Manoa Valley, on Araucaria excelsa, ?/04/1951, by M.S. Adachi. Holotype, female, by original designation Type depository: Washington: United States National Entomological Collection, U.S. National Museum of Natural History, District of Columbia, USA; accepted valid name Notes: Paratypes in BPBM. Illustr.
Carulaspis giffardi (Adachi & Fullaway, 1953); Borchsenius 1966: 160-161. change of combination
Lepidosaphes giffardi (Adachi & Fullaway, 1953); Normark, et al. 2019: 58. change of combination

Families: 1 | Genera: 1

Countries: 2

WilliaWa1988: pp.79 ( Adult (F) ) [Species of Carulaspis in the Tropical South Pacific Region] Key as: Carulaspis giffardi

Systematics: Normark, et al. (2019) reexamined specimens of "Carulaspis giffardi" after their phylogenetic analysis placed the species within the genus Lepido. saphes. They determined that the characters of this species fit the characters of the genus Lepidosaphes in all respects except for their turbinate body shape. It is also clear from the phylogeny that this species is only remotely related to the 2 genera in which it has heretofore been placed. They therefore regard it as Lepidosaphes giffardi.
Structure: Female scale elongate-oval, thin, yellow brown with exuviae located at the anterior end. Female is turbinate (Adachi & Fullaway, 1953).
General Remarks: Detailed description and illustration by Adachi & Fullaway (1953).