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Neoleonardia alata (Froggatt, 1914) (Diaspididae: Neoleonardia)

Aspidiotus alatus Froggatt 1914: 132. Type data: AUSTRALIA: New South Wales, at Dubbo and Wagga, on Eucalyptus sp., Victoria, near Swan Hill, Murray River, on Eucalyptus rostrata. Syntypes, female, Type depository: Canberra: Australian National Insect Collection, CSIRO Entomology, Australia; accepted valid name
Aspidiotus alatus; Froggatt 1915: 8. subsequent use Notes: Described again as "n. sp.".
Neglectaspis alata (Froggatt, 1914); Lindinger 1937: 190. change of combination requiring emendation of specific epithet for agreement in gender
Neoleonardia alata (Froggatt, 1914); Ferris 1938: 43. change of combination

Families: 1 | Genera: 1

Countries: 1

Structure: Froggatt (1914) illustrated the female scale. Female scale with a very distinctive form, about 1/8 inch diameter, hardly circular, rising up into a rounded dome, curving round like a mussel-shell; general colour light chocolate brown, clothed with a thin, grey shell, giving it a regular ringed structure; exuviae central, blue-black, surrounded with a regular boss, making it very prominent (Froggatt, 1914).
General Remarks: Description and illustration of adult female by Froggatt (1914).