Valid Names Results

Mycetaspis juventinae Lepage & Giannotti, 1944 (Diaspididae: Mycetaspis)

Nomenclatural History

• Mycetaspis juventinae Lepage & Giannotti 1944: 299. Type data: BRAZIL: Sao Paolo, Capital de S. Paolo, Parque D. Pedro II., on Erythrina sp.. Syntypes, female, Type depository: Curitiba: Departamento de Zoologia, Setor de Ciencias Biologicas, Universidade Federal do Parana, Brazil; Sao Paulo: Museu de Zoologia, Universidade de Sao Paulo, Brazil; Sao Paulo: Instituto Biologico de Sao Paulo, Brazil; accepted valid name Illustr.

Common Names

Ecological Associates

Hosts:

Families: 1 | Genera: 1

Geographic Distribution

Keys

• DonesEv2011: pp.5-6 ( Adult (F) ) [Key to adult females of the genus Mycetaspis]

Remarks

• Structure: Female scale more or less circular; colour dark brown chestnut; exuviae black, central or subcentral. Male scale small and elongate (Lepage & Giannotti, 1944).
• General Remarks: Description and illustration of adult female by Lepage and Giannotti (1944).

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