Valid Names Results
Mercetaspis isis (Hall, 1923) (Diaspididae: Mercetaspis)Nomenclatural History
- Coccomytilus isis Hall 1923: 21-22. Type data: EGYPT: Luxor, on Tamarix sp.. Syntypes, female, Type depository: Cairo: Plant Protection Department, Ministry of Agriculture, Egypt; accepted valid name Illustr.
- Mytilococcus isis (Hall, 1923); Lindinger 1936: 155. change of combination
- Nilotaspis isis (Hall, 1923); Borchsenius 1950b: 190. change of combination
- Mercetaspis isis (Hall, 1923); Danzig 1993: 296. change of combination
- Merceaspis isis (Hall, 1923); Mazzeo, et al. 2014: 58. misspelling of species epithet
Common Names
Ecological Associates
Hosts:
Families: 1 | Genera: 1
- Tamaricaceae
- Tamarix | BenDov2012 Hall1923
- Tamarix mannifera | Balach1954e
Geographic Distribution
Countries: 9
- Egypt | AbdRabEv2021 Hall1923
- Iran | Balach1954e KozarFoZa1996
- Iraq | Bodenh1943
- Israel | BenDov2012 Bodenh1926a
- Italy
- Sicily | NucifoWa2001
- Jordan | Balach1954e
- Pakistan | DanzigPe1998
- Tajikistan (=Tadzhikistan) | Bodenh1953
- Turkmenistan | DanzigPe1998
Keys
- MoghadWa2021: pp.170 ( Adult (F) ) [Mercetaspis in Iran]
- Danzig1993: pp.291 ( Adult (F) ) [Key to species of Mercetaspis]
- BazaroSh1971: pp.74 ( Adult (F) ) [Key to species of Nilotaspis] Key as: Nilotaspis isis
- EzzatAf1966: pp.397 ( ) [Key to species of Nilotaspis of Egypt]
- Borchs1963a: pp.207 ( Adult (F) ) [Key to species on Tamarix]
- Ezzat1958: pp.244 ( Adult (F) ) [Key to species of Nilotaspis] Key as: Nilotaspis isis
- Balach1954e: pp.118 ( Adult (F) ) [Tableau des espèces du g. Nilotaspis Green] Key as: Nilotaspis isis
- Borchs1950b: pp.190 ( Adult (F) ) [Key to species of Nilotaspis] Key as: Nilotaspis isis
Remarks
- Structure: Adult female elongate oval, about 0.9 mm long and 0.5 mm wide; lateral margins of body slightly notched intersegmentally, derm quite membranous except for very slight pygidial sclerotization (Ezzat & Afifi, 1966). Takagi & Moghaddam (2005) found that most of the mounted specimens from Tamarix were obtained from within galls formed on the branches. The gall is conical, attaining about 3mm across, with a small, round opening at the apex
- General Remarks: Detailed descriptions and illustrations by Hall (1923) and Ezzat & Afifi (1966).
Illustrations
Citations
- AbdRabEv2021: distribution, host, 36
- Balach1954e: description, distribution, host, illustration, taxonomy, 118, 122-125
- Balach1958a: distribution, host, 41
- BazaroSh1971: description, distribution, host, illustration, taxonomy, 74, 78-80
- BenDov2012: catalog, distribution, host, 31, 43
- Bodenh1926a: distribution, host, 189
- Bodenh1930a: distribution, 370
- Bodenh1935b: distribution, host, 308
- Bodenh1935c: distribution, 1155
- Bodenh1937: distribution, host, 7, 26, 217
- Bodenh1943: distribution, host, taxonomy, 9, 29
- BodenhTh1929: distribution, host, 109, 116
- Borchs1950b: distribution, taxonomy, 190
- Borchs1963a: distribution, host, taxonomy, 207
- Borchs1966: catalog, distribution, host, taxonomy, 76
- Borchs1973: distribution, host, taxonomy, 207
- Danzig1993: description, distribution, host, illustration, taxonomy, 291, 296-297
- DanzigPe1998: catalog, distribution, host, taxonomy, 307
- Ezzat1958: distribution, taxonomy, 244
- EzzatAf1966: description, distribution, host, illustration, taxonomy, 397, 398-400
- Gavril2018: reproduction, 241
- GhabboMo1996: description, distribution, host, 352
- Hall1923: description, distribution, host, illustration, taxonomy, 21-22
- Hall1926a: distribution, host, 37
- Hall1927: distribution, host, 109
- Hall1946a: distribution, host, 524
- Kaussa1955: distribution, host, 19
- KozarFoZa1996: distribution, 68
- KozarWa1985: catalog, distribution, 85
- Lashin1956: distribution, host, taxonomy, 130-131
- Lindin1936: taxonomy, 155
- MazzeoLoPe2014: distribution, 58
- Moghad2004: distribution, host, 28
- Moghad2013a: distribution, host, 42
- MoghadWa2021: diagnosis, distribution, host, illustration, key, taxonomy, 166, 175-176, 248
- NucifoWa2001: description, distribution, host, 209
- Seghat1977: distribution, host, 15
- TakagiMo2005: host, illustration, 49, 59
- Varshn2002: distribution, host, 52
- Willia2017a: catalog, list of species, 225
