Valid Names Results

Mesolecanium obscurum (Hempel, 1900) (Coccidae: Mesolecanium)

Nomenclatural History

Lecanium obscurum Hempel 1900: 5. Type data: BRAZIL: Sao Paulo, Ypiranga, on Maytenus sp.. Syntypes, female, male, and first instar, Type depository: Sao Paulo: Museu de Zoologia, Universidade de Sao Paulo, Brazil; accepted valid name
Mesolecanium obscurum (Hempel, 1900); Cockerell 1902k: 452. change of combination

Common Names

Ecological Associates

Hosts:

Families: 1 | Genera: 1

Celastraceae

Maytenus | Hempel1900

Geographic Distribution

Countries: 1

Brazil

Sao Paulo | Hempel1900

Keys

Granar2012: pp.9 ( Adult (F) ) [Key to the Neotropical species Mesolecanium]

Remarks

General Remarks: Description in Spanish and illustration in Granara de Willink, 2012.

Illustrations

Citations

BenDov1993: catalog, 182
Cocker1902k: taxonomy, 452
Cocker1902p: distribution, 254
Fernal1903b: catalog, 175
Granar2012: illustration, structure, taxonomy, 9, 13, 29
Hempel1900: description, distribution, host, illustration, taxonomy, 5-7
Hempel1900a: description, distribution, host, illustration, taxonomy, 441-443
Vernal1953: distribution, host, 138