Valid Names Results

Leucaspis cordylinidis Maskell, 1893 (Diaspididae: Leucaspis)

Nomenclatural History

• Leucaspis cordylinidis Maskell 1893b: 209-210. Type data: AUSTRALIA: Sydney, on Cordyline sp., by Mr. Olliff. Syntypes, female, Type depository: Auckland: New Zealand Arthropod Collection, Landcare Research, New Zealand; London: The Natural History Museum, England, UK; Washington: United States National Entomological Collection, U.S. National Museum of Natural History, District of Columbia, USA; accepted valid name Illustr.
• Leucodiaspis cordylinidis (Maskell, 1893); Lindinger 1932: 107. emendation that is unjustified Notes: Kirkaldy (1904a) considered Leucaspis Signoret 1869 preoccupied by Leucaspis Burmeister, 1835, in the Hymenoptera and suggested that the Signoret name be replaced with Leucodiaspis. Ferris (1936a) rejected this, considering it unnecessary (Morrison & Morrison, 1966).

Common Names

Ecological Associates

Hosts:

Families: 4 | Genera: 4

Geographic Distribution

Keys

• Britti1937: pp.285 ( Adult (F) ) [Key to species of Leucaspis]
• MacGil1921: pp.264 ( Adult (F) ) [Key to species of Leucaspis]
• Leonar1907c: pp.70 ( Adult (F) ) [Species of Leucaspis]

Remarks

• Systematics: In some instances, references to L. cordylinidis may actually refer to L. portaeaureae (Ferris, 1942).
• Structure: Female scale elongate, narrow, usually straight, sometimes curved, secretion white. Exuviae of nymph elongate, narrow, lightly chitinized. Male scale similar, but smaller. Adult female elongate, widest across abdomen, 1.0 mm long and 0.5 mm wide (Brittin, 1937).
• General Remarks: Detailed description by Brittin (1937).

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