Valid Names Results
Leucaspis carpodeti Brittin, 1937 (Diaspididae: Leucaspis)Nomenclatural History
- Leucaspis carpodeti Brittin 1937: 289-290. Type data: NEW ZEALAND: South Island, Nelson, on Carpodetus sp.. Holotype, female, Type depository: Auckland: New Zealand Arthropod Collection, Landcare Research, New Zealand; accepted valid name
Common Names
Ecological Associates
Hosts:
Families: 1 | Genera: 1
- Rousseaceae
- Carpodetus | Britti1937
Geographic Distribution
Countries: 1
- New Zealand
- South Island | Britti1937
Keys
- Britti1937: pp.285 ( Adult (F) ) [Key to species of Leucaspis]
Remarks
- Systematics: Leucaspis carpodeti is close to L. gigas in the paratrophic pores. Differs in the fewer parastigmatic pores, the well separated perivulvar pores and in the pygidial processes of the nymph (Brittin, 1937).
- Structure: Female scale elongate, straight, widening towards posterior extremity, secretion white. Male scale similar, but smaller. Adult female ovate, very convex (Brittin, 1937).
- General Remarks: Detailed description by Brittin (1937).
Illustrations
Citations
- Borchs1966: catalog, distribution, host, taxonomy, 215
- Britti1937: description, distribution, host, taxonomy, 285, 289-290
- Wise1977: distribution, 111
