Valid Names Results

Melanaspis pedina Munting, 1969 (Diaspididae: Melanaspis)

Nomenclatural History

• Melanaspis pedina Munting 1969: 129. Type data: NAMIBIA: Spitzkoppe, on Boscia foetida; collected 26.viii.1967.. Holotype, female, Type depository: Pretoria: South African National Collection of Insects, South Africa; accepted valid name Illustr.

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Ecological Associates

Hosts:

Families: 1 | Genera: 1

Foes:

Families: 1 | Genera: 1

Geographic Distribution

Keys

Remarks

• Structure: Female scale subcircular, about 1.4 mm in diameter; living in small pit in bark of host plant so that top is more or less even with surface of bark; exuviae black, covered with relatively thick white secretion. Male scale similar in colour when undisturbed but without black exuviae; broadly oval; slightly smaller than that of female; second instar exuviae completely enclosing adult female even at full maturity (Munting, 1969).
• General Remarks: Description and illustration of adult female by Munting (1969).

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