Valid Names Results

Nipponorthezia ardisiae Kuwana, 1916 (Ortheziidae: Nipponorthezia)

Nomenclatural History

• Nipponorthezia ardisiae Kuwana 1916: 150-152. Type data: JAPAN: Honshu, Yokohama, on Ardisia japonica, ?/02/1914, by T. Yamamura. Syntypes, female, Type depository: Davis: The Bohart Museum of Entomology, University of California, California, USA; accepted valid name Illustr.

Common Names

• bladhia scale Yang1982

Ecological Associates

Hosts:

Families: 2 | Genera: 2

Geographic Distribution

Keys

• ZhengXi2020: pp.449 ( Adult (F) ) [Nipponorthezia species]
• Kozar2004: pp.230-231 ( Adult (F) ) [Key to the world species of Nipponorthezia]
• Morris1952: pp.72 ( Adult (F) ) [Key to species of Nipponorthezia]

Remarks

• Structure: Adult female is brown or yellowish brown, antennae and legs are yellowish brown, cereous lamellae and marsupium snow white. Larvae are ovate after potash treatment (Kuwana, 1916).
• Biology: This species occurs in roots (Kozár, 2004).
• General Remarks: The American specimens Morrison (1925) refers to were later determined to be Nipponorthezia obscura. Redescription and illustration by Kozár (2004).

Illustrations

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