Valid Names Results

Melanaspis rotunda Ferris, 1943 (Diaspididae: Melanaspis)

Nomenclatural History

• Melanaspis rotunda Ferris 1943: 62. Type data: MEXICO: State of Michoacan, Zitacuaro, on Eurya theoides, J.N. Couch, March 7, 1940. Lectotype, female, by subsequent designation (DeitzDa1986,70). Type depository: Davis: The Bohart Museum of Entomology, University of California, California, USA; accepted valid name Illustr.

Common Names

Ecological Associates

Hosts:

Families: 1 | Genera: 1

Geographic Distribution

Keys

• DeitzDa1986: pp.12-15 ( Adult (F) ) [North America]
• Ferris1943: pp.65 ( Adult (F) ) [North America]

Remarks

• Structure: Scale of the female of the type common to the genus, circular, black, quite highly convex. Scale of the male not recognized (Ferris, 1943).
• Biology: Occurring on the bark of twigs, associated with and concealed by a fungus of the genus Septobasidium (Ferris, 1943).
• General Remarks: Description and illustration of adult female by Ferris (1943) and by Deitz & Davidson (1986).

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