Valid Names Results

Niveaspis tenuis Ferris, 1941 (Diaspididae: Niveaspis)

Niveaspis tenuis Ferris 1941d: SIII-307. Type data: PANAMA: Chiriqui, on undetermined shrub, 1938, by G.F. Ferris. Syntypes, female, Type depository: Davis: The Bohart Museum of Entomology, University of California, California, USA; accepted valid name Illustr.

Countries: 1

Systematics: N. tenuis resembles N. ilicis in the smallness of the median processes between the antennae and in the absence of dorsal ducts from the pygidium, but differs from it especially in having ducts on the dorsum of the prepygidial abdominal segments and in the form of the 1st lobule of the 2nd pygidial lobe, as well as in the form of the median lobes (Ferris, 1941d).
Structure: Scale forms a purplish discoloration on leaves of host. Female scale thin and silvery. Male scale similar. Adult female about 1.75 mm long, extremely slender and delicate, the derm without the slightest trace of sclerotization except for the pygidium. Lateral margins of the prepygidial abdominal segments very weakly lobed. Pygidium elongate, median lobes acutely rounded at the apex (Ferris, 1941d).
Biology: N. tenuis was collected at an altitude of 7000 feet (Ferris, 1941d).
General Remarks: Detailed description and illustration by Ferris (1941d).