Valid Names Results

Mycetaspis apicata (Newstead, 1920) (Diaspididae: Mycetaspis)

Nomenclatural History

• Aspidiotus (Chrysomphalus) apicatus Newstead 1920: 195. Type data: GUYANA: Enmore Forest, East Coast, Demerara, on Avicennia nitida. Holotype, female, Type depository: London: The Natural History Museum, England, UK; accepted valid name Illustr.
• Pelomphala apicata (Newstead, 1920); MacGillivray 1921: 441. change of combination requiring emendation of specific epithet for agreement in gender
• Chrysomphalus apicatus (Newstead, 1920); Bodkin 1922: 59. change of combination
• Aonidiella apicata (Newstead, 1920); Costa Lima 1924a: 196. change of combination
• Aspidiotus apicatus Newstead, 1920; McKenzie 1938: 3. change of combination
• Mycetaspis apicata (Newstead, 1920); Ferris 1941d: 370. change of combination
• Melanaspis apicata (Newstead, 1920); Lindinger 1943a: 147. change of combination
• Mycetaspis apicata (Newstead, 1920); Borchsenius 1966: 357. revived combination (previously published)

Common Names

Ecological Associates

Hosts:

Families: 9 | Genera: 12

Geographic Distribution

Keys

• WeiScNo2021: pp.17-23 ( Adult (F) ) [Aspidiotini from Panama]
• SchneiClWe2020: pp.67-71 ( Adult (F) ) [Aspidiotini in Argentina]
• DonesEv2011: pp.5 ( Adult (F) ) [Key to adult females of the genus Mycetaspis]
• Ferris1942: pp.38 ( Adult (F) ) [North America]

Remarks

• Structure: Female scale more or less circular, 1.6-1.9 mm in diameter; convex and very thick; covered with a relatively thick epidermal layer of bark; colour, when denuded, opaque black; larval exuviae nude, shining black, forming a well defined nipple; second exuviae black; ventral surface shining black; ventral scale rather stout, white or dusky white, with a dark brown or blackish periphery (Newstead, 1920). Scale of the female only moderately convex, dark brown or black. Scale of the male dark brown, oval (Ferris, 1941d).
• Biology: Occurring on the bark of the limbs and trunks of the hosts. There is a very strong tendency for the scales to be concealed beneath bark flakes, in cracks or under the epidermis of the bark (Ferris, 1941d).
• General Remarks: Description and illustration of adult female by Newstead (1920) and by Ferris (1941d).

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