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Lepidosaphes ocellata (Green, 1907) (Diaspididae: Lepidosaphes)

Mytilaspis ocellata Green 1907: 206-207. Type data: SEYCHELLES: on fronds of Davallia sp., by R. Dupont. Holotype, female, Type depository: London: The Natural History Museum, England, UK; accepted valid name Illustr.
Lepidosaphes ocellata (Green, 1907); Sanders 1909a: 57. change of combination
Cornuaspis ocellata (Green, 1907); MacGillivray 1921: 286. change of combination Notes: Balachowsky (1954e): synonymized the genus Cornuaspis MacGillivray with Lepidosaphes Shimer creating the combination Lepidosaphes ocellata.

Families: 1 | Genera: 1

Countries: 1

MacGil1921: pp.286 ( ) [Key to species of Cornuaspis] Key as: Cornuaspis ocellata

Systematics: L. ocellata is close to L. pallida, but in the latter the lateral lobules are more than half the size of the median lobes, in the former, the lateral lobules are markedly smaller and narrower (Green, 1907).
Structure: Female scale elongate, narrow, mostly straight, moderately convex above, with or without a narrow flattened border, pale fulvous. Larval exuviae ochreous yellow. Surface usually with fine transverse corrugations, occasionally smooth, 2.0-2.5 mm long, 0.50 mm wide. Male scale similar, but smaller, 1.25 mm long. Adult female broadest across the median abdominal segment, with well-defined eye spots on the lateral margins of cephalic segment (Green, 1907).
Biology: Lepidosaphes ocellata was collected at an altitude of 3000 feet (Green, 1907).
General Remarks: Best description and illustration by Green (1907).