Valid Names Results

Leucaspis portaeaureae Ferris, 1942 (Diaspididae: Leucaspis)

Nomenclatural History

• Leucaspis portaeaureae Ferris 1942: SIV-399. Type data: UNITED STATES: California, San Francisco, on Podocarpus acutifolia. Holotype, female, Type depository: Davis: The Bohart Museum of Entomology, University of California, California, USA; accepted valid name Illustr.

Common Names

• podocarpus leucaspis scale Borchs1966

Ecological Associates

Hosts:

Families: 1 | Genera: 1

Geographic Distribution

Keys

• Ferris1942: pp.SIV-446:56 ( Adult (F) ) [Key to species of Leucaspis]

Remarks

• Systematics: This species has in the past been identified as L. cordylinidis and specimens in some collections may be under this name (Ferris, 1942).
• Structure: Female scale elongate and slender, composed of the heavily sclerotized 2nd exuviae, which is overlaid at the anterior extremity by the elongate 1st exuviae and elsewhere by a thin film of wax that partially conceals the exuviae and reduces the brown color to a gray-brown (Ferris, 1942).
• General Remarks: Detailed descriptions and illustrations by Ferris (1942) and Gill (1997).

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