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Mercetaspis bicuspis (Hall, 1923) (Diaspididae: Mercetaspis)

Lepidosaphes bicuspis Hall 1923: 22-23. Type data: EGYPT: Upper Egypt, Armand, on Tamarix sp., 14/12/1921. Syntypes, female, Type depository: Cairo: Plant Protection Department, Ministry of Agriculture, Egypt; accepted valid name Illustr.
Mytilococcus bicuspis (Hall, 1923); Lindinger 1936: 158. change of combination
Nilotaspis bicuspis (Hall, 1923); Balachowsky 1954e: 121. change of combination
Acanthomytilus bicuspis (Hall, 1923); Ezzat & Afifi 1954e: 384. change of combination
Mercetaspis bicuspis (Hall, 1923); Danzig 1993: 290. Type depository: Madrid: Museo Nacional de Ciencias Naturales, Spain; change of combination

Families: 3 | Genera: 3

Countries: 4

MoghadWa2021: pp.170 ( Adult (F) ) [Mercetaspis in Iran]
EzzatAf1966: pp.18 ( Adult (F) ) [Key to adult females of Acanthomytilus]
Ezzat1958: pp.245 ( Adult (F) ) [Key to adult female Lepidosaphes] Key as: Lepidosaphes bicuspis
Balach1954e: pp.118 ( Adult (F) ) [Tableau des espèces du g. Nilotaspis Green] Key as: Nilotaspis bicuspis

Systematics: Mercetaspis bicuspis differs from species of Lepidosaphes and Acanthomytilus by having only one pair of lobes (Ezzat & Afifi, 1966).
Structure: Adult female oval, slightly tapering anteriorly, about 0.9 mm long and 0.5 mm wide; outer margin of the body quite smooth or very slightly notched intersegmentally. Derm membranous except for pygidium (Ezzat & Afifi, 1966). Slide-mounted adult female oval. Antennae each with 2 setae. Anterior spiracles eachwith 1 associated disc pore. Pygidium with 1 pair of lobes; median lobes (L1) each subquadrangular and parallel, small and symmetrical, without notches. With 2 long median gland spines between L1, and each side with 3 gland spines present singly on each of segments V–VII. Dorsal marginal macroducts numbering 5 on each side. Dorsal submarginal ducts on each side present in 1 group on each of segments II–V; submarginal ducts present also on metathorax and abdominal segment I. Submedian ducts present on segments III–VII. Perivulvar pores present in 3 linear groups. Ventral microducts present on abdominal segments III–V, with some ducts same size as those on dorsum, present on metathorax and abdominal segments I and II.Male scale cover same form as female but smaller. (Moghaddam & Watson, 2021)
General Remarks: Detailed description and illustration by Ezzat & Afifi (1966).

AbdRabEv2021: distribution, host, 36
Balach1950b: taxonomy, 544
Balach1954e: description, distribution, host, illustration, taxonomy, 118, 121-123
Balach1958a: distribution, host, 41-42
BenDov2012: catalog, distribution, host, 31, 43
Bodenh1924: description, distribution, host, taxonomy, 47-48
Bodenh1930a: distribution, 370
Bodenh1935: distribution, 247
Bodenh1935b: distribution, host, 308
Bodenh1937: distribution, host, 217
Bodenh1943: distribution, host, 5
BodenhTh1929: distribution, host, 109, 116
Borchs1966: catalog, distribution, host, taxonomy, 76
Danzig1993: taxonomy, 290, 291, 296
DanzigPe1998: catalog, distribution, host, taxonomy, 306
Ezzat1958: distribution, taxonomy, 245
EzzatAf1966: description, distribution, host, illustration, taxonomy, 384-386
GhabboMo1996: description, distribution, host, 351
Hall1923: description, distribution, host, illustration, taxonomy, 22-23
Hall1925: distribution, host, 22
Hall1926a: distribution, host, 32, 38
Hall1927b: distribution, host, 167
Hall1946a: distribution, host, 524
Kaussa1955: distribution, host, 19
KozarFoZa1996: distribution, 67
KozarWa1985: catalog, distribution, 85
Lindin1936: distribution, taxonomy, 158
Moghad2004: distribution, host, 27
Moghad2013a: distribution, host, 41
MoghadWa2021: diagnosis, distribution, host, illustration, key, taxonomy, 170-172, 247
Seghat1977: distribution, host, 15
Takagi1970: taxonomy, 25
UlgentKo2011: structure, taxonomy, 63