Valid Names Results

Melanaspis sacculata Ferris, 1943 (Diaspididae: Melanaspis)

Nomenclatural History

• Melanaspis sacculata Ferris 1943: 62. Type data: MEXICO: State of Guerrero, Taxco, on undetermined host; collected by J.N. Couch, February 5, 1940.. Lectotype, female, by subsequent designation (DeitzDa1986,72). 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

Associates:

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, moderately convex, black, hard and brittle (Ferris, 1943).
• Biology: Occurring on the bark in association with a fungus of the genus Septobasidium by which it is entirely concealed (Ferris, 1943).
• General Remarks: Description and illustration of adult female by Ferris (1943) and by Deitz & Davidson (1986).

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