Valid Names Results

Lepidosaphes multipora (Leonardi, 1903) (Diaspididae: Lepidosaphes)

Nomenclatural History

• Mytilaspis multipora Leonardi 1903: 87-89. Type data: NEW ZEALAND: Aukland, on Pittosporum undulatam. Syntypes, female, Type depository: Portici: Dipartimento de Entomologia e Zoologia Agraria di Portici, Universita di Napoli Federico II, Italy; accepted valid name Illustr.
• Lepidosaphes multipora (Leonardi, 1903); Sanders 1906: 17. change of combination Notes: LECTOTYPE female designated in Henderson, 2011, to preserve nomenclatural stability: NEW ZEALAND, Auckland, ca.1903-1904, J. Lidgett, Pittosporum undulatum stem/ bark, #07-093b, [1]: 1 F. Barcode NZAC02005957
• Mytilaspis eucalypti Froggatt 1914: 610. Type data: AUSTRALIA: New South Wales, Mittagong, on Eucalyptus piperita. Syntypes, female, Type depository: Orange: Agricultural Scientific Collections Unit, Orange Agricultural Institute, NSW, Australia; junior synonym (discovered by CharleHe2002, 602).
• Lepidosaphes eucalypti (Froggatt, 1914); Sasscer 1915: 37. change of combination
• Lepidosaphes ulmi novozealandica Green 1929: 378. Type data: NEW ZEALAND: Governor's Bay, on Prunus sp., 1922. Syntypes, female, Type depository: London: The Natural History Museum, England, UK; junior synonym (discovered by CharleHe2002, 602). Illustr.
• Mytilococcus eucalypti (Froggatt, 1914); Lindinger 1943a: 150. change of combination
• Lepidosaphes novozealandica Green, 1929; Borchsenius 1966: 50. change in status (level)

Common Names

• eucalyptus mussel scale Miller1925

Ecological Associates

Hosts:

Families: 5 | Genera: 6

Foes:

Families: 1 | Genera: 1

Geographic Distribution

Keys

• Hender2011: pp.105 ( Adult (F) ) [Key to Lepidosaphes adult females in New Zealand]
• Leonar1903: pp.30 ( Adult (F) ) [Key to species of Mytilaspis] Key as: Mytilaspis multipora

Remarks

• Systematics: The presence of numerous submedian microducts on the mesothorax distinguishes L multipora from other Lepidosaphes species in New Zealand. L. multipora is most similar to L. ulmi in possessing numerous dorsal ducts but lacks the ventral band of ducts between the posterior spiracles, the lateral abdominal spinose spurs, and dorsal abdominal bosses of L. ulmi. L. multpora differs from L. beckii by lacking lateral double bosses, and from L. pinnaeformis by lacking eye spurs. (Henderson, 2011)
• Structure: Female scale covers appear medium brown with a pale posterior section and gold-brown terminal exuvia. (Henderson, 2011)Female scale light chocolate brown, closely resembling the color of the host bark, general form slender, convex, but somewhat flattened on the apical margins. Exuviae light reddish brown, 3 mm long. Male cover about half the size of the female, broadest at apex, which is sometimes whitish; 2nd shed skin shield-shaped, carinated (Froggatt, 1914).Pygidium of adult female with median lobes relatively smaller and lateral lobes relatively larger. Median lobes show no indication of a trilobate condition, except in the early adult stage, when they may be obscurely tricuspid (Green, 1929).
• Biology: There are at least two generations per year (Miller, 1925).
• General Remarks: Best description and illustration by Leonardi (1903).Best description by Froggatt (1914); description and illustration by Miller (1925).Best description and illustration by Green (1929).

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