Valid Names Results

Lepidosaphes janguai Balachowsky, 1954 (Diaspididae: Lepidosaphes)

Nomenclatural History

• Lepidosaphes janguai Balachowsky 1954e: 82-83. Type data: PAKISTAN: 30 km west of Karachi, on Tamarix sp., 05/05/1954, by A. Balachowsky. Syntypes, female, Type depository: Paris: Museum National d'Histoire naturelle, France; accepted valid name Illustr.
• Mytilaspis janguai (Balachowsky, 1954); Borchsenius 1963: 1168. change of combination

Common Names

Ecological Associates

Hosts:

Families: 1 | Genera: 1

Geographic Distribution

Keys

• MoghadWa2021: pp.139 ( Adult (F) ) [Lepidosaphes in Iran]
• Balach1954e: pp.34 ( Adult (F) ) [Tableau de détermination des espèces du g. Lepidosaphes]

Remarks

• Structure: Female scale cover small, linear, brown. Male scale cover white. Slide-mounted adult female elongate oval, membranous at maturity. Antennae each with 2 large setae. Anterior spiracles each associated with 1 disc pore; posterior spiracles without associated disc pores. Pygidium with 2 pairs of lobes; median lobes (L1) large, each lobe with an inconspicuous notch on each margin; median space wider than a lobe. Second lobes (L2) without outer lobules (L2b). Gland spines much longer than median lobes, arranged in pairs on each pygidial segment, inner spine of each pair longer than outer spine. Dorsal marginal ducts numbering 6 on each side of pygidium. Dorsal submarginal and submedian ducts present on segments III–VI in distinct, regular rows; also with submarginal ducts on metathorax and segments I and II. Ventral duct tubercles absent. Ventral ducts present on meso- and metathorax and segment I. Perivulvar disc pores present in 5 groups. (Moghaddam & Watson, 2021)
• General Remarks: Best description and illustration by Balachowsky (1954e).

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