Valid Names Results

Odonaspis panici Hall, 1926 (Diaspididae: Odonaspis)

Nomenclatural History

• Odonaspis panici Hall 1926a: 26. Type data: EGYPT: Abu Sueir, on Panicum turgidum; collected 20.VI.1925.. Holotype, female, Type depository: London: The Natural History Museum, England, UK; accepted valid name Illustr.
• Aonidia panici (Hall, 1926); Lindinger 1932f: 189. Type depository: London: The Natural History Museum, England, UK; change of combination
• Odonaspis panici Hall, 1926; Borchsenius 1966: 225. revived combination (previously published)

Common Names

• panic scale AbdRabEv2021

Ecological Associates

Hosts:

Families: 1 | Genera: 2

Foes:

Families: 1 | Genera: 1

Geographic Distribution

Keys

• ChenJiXi2024: pp.297-299 ( Adult (F) ) [species of Odonaspis]
• MoghadWa2021: pp.181 ( Adult (F) ) [Odonaspis in Iran]
• BenDov1988b: pp.35 ( Adult (F) ) [World]
• Ezzat1958: pp.247 ( Adult (F) ) [Egypt]
• Balach1953g: pp.733 ( Adult (F) ) [Mediterranean ]

Remarks

• Structure: Scale of adult female large, elongate, 2.5-3 mm long, 1.5-1.75 mm wide; broadened in front and somewhat narrowed behind; flattish and white in colour; exuviae near one end naked and orange; ventral scale entire, dense white and continuous with the dorsal scale. Male scale smaller, elongate with subparallel sides; exuviae orange; width of scale rather more than the width of the pellicle; length of scale of male 1 mm, breadth 0.5 mm (Hall, 1926a). Slide-mounted adult female oval, membranous. Antennae each with 1 robust seta. Anterior spiracles each associated with 8–10 disc pores; posterior spiracles each associated with 3–5 disc pores. Pygidium with a single median lobe (L1). Pygidial segments VII & VIII, VI & VII and V & VI separated by deep marginal incisions (Moghaddam & Watson, 2021)
• General Remarks: Description and illustration of adult female by Hall (1926a) and by Ben-Dov (1988b).

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