Valid Names Results

Niveaspis ilicis (Hoke, 1927) (Diaspididae: Niveaspis)

Lepidosaphes ilicis Hoke 1927: 352-353. Type data: UNITED STATES: Mississippi, Horse Shoe Lake, Tallahatchie River bottom, near Como, on Ilex opaca, 19/10/1921, by G.H. Lobdell. Holotype, female, Type depository: Mississippi State (Starkeville): Mississippi Entomological Museum, Mississippi State University, Mississippi, USA.; accepted valid name Illustr.
Lyraspis ilicis (Hoke, 1927); Ferris 1938a: 150. change of combination
Niveaspis ilicis (Hoke, 1927); Ferris 1941d: SIII-302. change of combination
Mytilococcus ilicis (Hoke, 1927); Lindinger 1957: 550. change of combination
Niveaspis ilicis (Hoke, 1927); Borchsenius 1966: 36. revived combination (previously published)

Families: 2 | Genera: 2

Countries: 1

Systematics: The absence of dorsal pygidial ducts will at once separate N. ilicis from N. townsendiana (Ferris, 1938a).
Structure: Female scale 1.48 mm long, very slender, slightly broader than exuviae, transparent, body of insect showing through very distinctly, scale appearing on leaf as nearly white; exuviae occupying one-half of total length of scale, 1st exuviae projecting entirely beyond scale, overlapping 2nd only slightly, covered with thin white secretion, faint glistening straw-yellow with secretion removed; ventral scale very delicate, not noticeable on leaf and only apparent as fringe along lateral margins beneath dorsal scale. Male scale slightly shorter than that of female, slightly opaque, with only one exuviae. Slide-mounted adult female 1.0 mm long, 0.24 mm wide (Hoke, 1927 and Ferris, 1938a).
General Remarks: Detailed description and illustration of male and female scale, male and female adults, and second stage female by Hoke (1927) and Ferris (1938a).