Valid Names Results

Mohelnaspis massiliensis (Goux, 1937) (Diaspididae: Mohelnaspis)

Nomenclatural History

• Poliaspidoides massiliensis Goux 1937: 35-42. Type data: FRANCE: near Marseille, on Brachypodium ramosum, 1931, by L. Goux. Syntypes, female, Type depository: Paris: Museum National d'Histoire naturelle, France; accepted valid name Illustr.
• Mohelnaspis moravica Šulc 1937: 4, 30. Type data: CZECHOSLOVAKIA: Mohelno, on Festuca glauca. Unknown type status, unknown, junior synonym (discovered by Balach1954e, 157).
• Mohelnaspis recepi Bodenheimer 1941: 66-69. Type data: TURKEY: on hills behind the Cubuk Baraj (near Ankara), on Alopecurus agrestis, 06/05/1939. Syntypes, female, Type depository: Bet Dagan: Department of Entomology, The Volcani Center, Israel; Paris: Museum National d'Histoire naturelle, France; junior synonym (discovered by Balach1954e, 154). Illustr.
• Berleseaspis moravica (Šulc, 1937); Lindinger 1943b: 208. change of combination
• Dycryptaspis massiliensis (Goux, 1937); Lindinger 1943b: 219. change of combination
• Mohelnaspis massiliensis (Goux, 1937); Balachowsky 1954e: 154. change of combination
• Melanaspis recepi (Bodenheimer, 1941); Ben-Dov & Harpaz 1986: 29. change of combination

Common Names

• grass scale KosztaKo1988F

Ecological Associates

Hosts:

Families: 1 | Genera: 5

Foes:

Families: 1 | Genera: 1

Geographic Distribution

Keys

• Danzig1971d: pp.841 ( Adult (F) ) [Key to species of the family Diaspididae]
• Danzig1964: pp.647 ( Adult (F) ) []

Remarks

• Structure: The female scale may be covered with a thin whitish layer of wax and if this is the case, it is opaque. If the wax layer has fallen off, it is metallic yellowish green and shiny. Male scale similar to female in structure and color, but it falls off the host leaf more easily. Young female is light orange and dark orange on dorsal and ventral middle pygidium. Male body is slender, legs well developed, wings long, narrow, opaque with an orange pocket. The whole body and legs are light orange, thickened thoracic sutures are dark red (Šulc, 1937). Test of female very narrow and elongate oystershell shaped; brownish gray. Female elongate spindle shaped, orange- yellow, with sclerotized pygidial end (Kosztarab & Kozár, 1988).
• Biology: This species has one generation per year and overwinters as adult female (Schmutterer, 1959). The first stages appear at the end of May and in early June. Second stages were collected during the last week of June, males and adult females appeared on June 10th (Šulc, 1937). Goux (1937) states that there are at least 3 generations per annum. The first resulting from females having overwintered and giving adult females in June. The second generation from June to September to October. The third from October to March.
• General Remarks: Detailed description of both sexes of larvae and adults by Šulc (1937). Goux (1937) also describes and illustrates female and larvae.

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