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Lepidosaphes mackieana McKenzie, 1943 (Diaspididae: Lepidosaphes)

Nomenclatural History

• Lepidosaphes mackieana McKenzie 1943: 153-155. Type data: UNITED STATES: California, Los Angeles County, West Los Angeles, Armacost and Royston Nurseries, on Dendrobium merlin, 20/08/1942, by C.R. Tower, E. Myers & H.L. McKenzie. 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 Illustr.
• Andaspis mackieana (McKenzie, 1943); Williams 1963b: 18-19. change of combination
• Mytilaspis mackieana (McKenzie, 1943); Borchsenius 1963: 1168. change of combination
• Lepidosaphes mackieana McKenzie, 1943; Normark, et al. 2019: 62. revived combination (previously published)

Common Names

Ecological Associates

Hosts:

Families: 1 | Genera: 1

Geographic Distribution

Keys

• PowellZeMi2024: pp.19 ( Adult (F) ) [Key to slide-mounted Lepidosaphes]
• Gill1997: pp.169 ( Adult (F) ) [Key to California species of Lepidosaphes] Key as: Lepidosaphes mackieana
• Willia1963b: pp.26 ( Adult (F) ) [Key to species of Andaspis] Key as: Andaspis mackieana
• McKenz1956: pp.33 ( Adult (F) ) [Key to species of Lepidosaphes] Key as: Lepidosaphes mackieana
• Zimmer1948: pp.418 ( Adult (F) ) [Key to species of Lepidosaphes reported in Hawaii] Key as: Lepidosaphes mackieana

Remarks

• Systematics: This species is close to Lepidosaphes noxia, but differs in having the median lobes laterally serrate whereas in noxia these lobes are only slightly once-notched on each side (McKenzie, 1956). Williams (1963b) transferred this species to Andaspis based on the shape of the median lobes. It was transferred back to Lepidosaphes by Normark, et al. (2019) based on additional morphological and phylogenetic evidence.
• Structure: Scale of female narrow, oyster-shell or elongated in shape. Moderately convex. Ranges in color from brown to whitish, generally light brown. Exuviae terminal, straw colored (Merrill, 1953).
• Biology: Female scales occurring under the sheath on stems just above the crown of plant; males usually located further up on the orchids under spike sheaths (McKenzie, 1943).
• General Remarks: Description and illustration by McKenzie (1943).

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