Valid Names Results

Nicholiella digitata Ferris, 1943 (Diaspididae: Nicholiella)

Nomenclatural History

• Nicholiella digitata Ferris 1943: 75-76. Type data: MEXICO: Guerrero, Taxco, Kilometer 184 on the road to Acapulco, on undetermined host, 1/02/1940, by J.M. Couch. Holotype, female, Type depository: Davis: The Bohart Museum of Entomology, University of California, California, USA; accepted valid name Illustr.

Common Names

Ecological Associates

Associates:

Families: 1 | Genera: 1

Geographic Distribution

Keys

• Ferris1943: pp.76 ( ) [Key to species of Nicholiella]

Remarks

• Structure: Adult female about 0.5 mm long, very slightly sclerotic or membranous throughout except for the quite strongly sclerotized pygidium. Body narrowly turbinate. Pygidium short and broad, terminating in 3 somewhat elongate, flattened and apically more or less truncate lobes which in appearance and texture are continuous with the pygidium itself (Ferris, 1943).
• General Remarks: Detailed description and illustration by Ferris (1943).

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