Valid Names Results

Leucaspis pittospori Brittin, 1937 (Diaspididae: Leucaspis)

Nomenclatural History

• Leucaspis pittospori Brittin 1937: 295-296. Type data: NEW ZEALAND: South Island, Lyttelton, on Pittosporum sp.. Syntypes, female, Type depository: Auckland: New Zealand Arthropod Collection, Landcare Research, New Zealand; accepted valid name

Common Names

Ecological Associates

Hosts:

Families: 1 | Genera: 1

Geographic Distribution

Keys

• Britti1937: pp.285 ( Adult (F) ) [Key to species of Leucaspis]

Remarks

• Systematics: Leucaspis pittospori is close to L. melicytidis, but differs in the differently shaped lobes of the nymph and of the adult, in the 3 middle groups of perivulvar pores being well separated, and in the absence of chitinous thickenings on the pygidium of the adult (Brittin, 1937).
• Structure: Female scale elongate, narrow, convex, secretion very thin, white. Male scale similar, but smaller. Adult female elongate, widest across abdomen, tapering slightly towards cephalic extremity, 0.82 mm lone and 0.54 mm wide (Brittin, 1937).
• General Remarks: Detailed description by Brittin (1937).

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