Valid Names Results

Lepidosaphes stepta Williams & Watson, 1988 (Diaspididae: Lepidosaphes)

Nomenclatural History

• Lepidosaphes stepta Williams & Watson 1988: 166. Type data: FIJI: Viti Levu, Naduruloulou, on Stachytarpheta sp., ?/10/1949, by B.A. O'Connor. Holotype, female, Type depository: London: The Natural History Museum, England, UK; accepted valid name Illustr.

Common Names

Ecological Associates

Hosts:

Families: 2 | Genera: 3

Geographic Distribution

Keys

• WilliaWa1988: pp.144 ( Adult (F) ) [Key to species of Lepidosaphes of the South Pacific Region]

Remarks

• Systematics: Lepidosaphes stepta is distinctive and can be easily separated from other Pacific species in possessing numerous large tubercles or spurs on the head margin. It is related to L. okitsuensis, but this species has more numerous ducts posterior to segment 5 on the pygidium. L. stepta is very close to L. serrifrons, it differs from L. stepta in lacking the sclerotized tubercles on segments 2 and 3 of abdomen, and the long microduct above each second lobe (Williams & Watson, 1988).
• Structure: Adult female about 1.25 mm long, narrow, elongate, sides almost parallel, widest at 1st abdominal segment; lateral lobes of abdominal segments moderately developed; pygidium rounded; head rounded, but jagged because of numerous quite large pointed tubercles or spurs which become sclerotized, occupying anterior edge and area between antennae (Williams & Watson, 1988).
• General Remarks: Best description and illustration by Williams & Watson (1988).

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