Valid Names Results

Lepidosaphes lidgetti (Cockerell, 1899) (Diaspididae: Lepidosaphes)

Nomenclatural History

• Mytilaspis lidgetti Cockerell 1899f: 14-15. Type data: AUSTRALIA: Victoria, Myrniong, on Eucalyptus rostrata and E. goniocalyx, by J. Lidgett. Syntypes, female, Type depository: Washington: United States National Entomological Collection, U.S. National Museum of Natural History, District of Columbia, USA; accepted valid name
• Mytilaspis lidgetti Lidgett 1899: 37. nomen nudum (discovered by Cocker1899f, 14).
• Lepidosaphes lidgetti (Cockerell, 1899); Fernald 1903b: 311. change of combination
• Triaspidis lidgetti (Cockerell, 1899); MacGillivray 1921: 280. change of combination

Common Names

Ecological Associates

Hosts:

Families: 1 | Genera: 1

Geographic Distribution

Keys

• MacGil1921: pp.280 ( Adult (F) ) [Key to species of Triaspidis] Key as: Triaspidis lidgetti
• Leonar1903: pp.31 ( Adult (F) ) [Key to species of Mytilaspis] Key as: Mytilaspis lidgetti
• Cocker1899f: pp.14 ( Adult (F) ) [Australian species of Mytilaspis] Key as: Mytilaspis lidgetti

Remarks

• Systematics: Female scales of Lepidosaphes lidgetti appear like those of L. casuarinae. The female of casuarinae, however, is very easily distinguishable from lidgetti by the depression between the median lobes, which are broad, little produced and strongly crenulate (Cockerell, 1899f).
• Structure: Female scale narrow, usually more or less curved, moderately convex, snow-white, the exuviae bright reddish orange, but the second skin more or less covered by a thin whitish film. Male scale much smaller, snow-white, rather broad, more or less loosely woven, so as to appear woolly; no keel; exuvia deep orange (Cockerell, 1899f).

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