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Lepidosaphes pallens (Maskell, 1890) (Diaspididae: Lepidosaphes)

Mytilaspis pallens Maskell 1890: 134. Type data: AUSTRALIA: New South Wales, in greenhouse, on unidentified "fan-palm". Syntypes, female, Type depository: Auckland: New Zealand Arthropod Collection, Landcare Research, New Zealand; Washington: United States National Entomological Collection, U.S. National Museum of Natural History, District of Columbia, USA; accepted valid name Illustr.
Lepidosaphes pallens (Maskell, 1890); Fernald 1903b: 312. change of combination
Fusilaspis pallens (Maskell, 1890); MacGillivray 1921: 289. change of combination
Trichomytilus pallens (Maskell, 1890); Lindinger 1933a: 165. change of combination
Poliaspis pallens (Maskell, 1890); Lindinger 1943a: 149. change of combination

Families: 1 | Genera: 1

Families: 1 | Genera: 1

Countries: 1

MacGil1921: pp.289 ( Adult (F) ) [Key to species of Fusilaspis] Key as: Fusilaspis pallens
Leonar1903: pp.31 ( Adult (F) ) [Key to species of Mytilaspis] Key as: Mytilaspis pallens
Cocker1899f: pp.14 ( Adult (F) ) [Australian species of Mytilaspis] Key as: Mytilaspis pallens

Systematics: Lepidosaphes pallens is allied to L. phymatodius (=Pseudaulacaspis phymatodius) (Froggatt, 1914).
Structure: Female scale cover light greyish-green, elongated, flat, thin; rather widely pyriform in many specimens, exuviae small. Male scale cover resembling that of female, but much smaller and a little more convex; not carinated. Adult female dark brown or purple, cephalic region comparatively large. Adult male dark brown (Maskell, 1890).