Valid Names Results

Opuntiaspis javanensis Green, 1905 (Diaspididae: Opuntiaspis)

Nomenclatural History

• Opuntiaspis javanensis Green 1905: 28-29. Type data: INDONESIA: Java, on Agave mexicana, by A. Zimmerman. Syntypes, female, Type depository: London: The Natural History Museum, England, UK; accepted valid name Illustr.
• Lepidosaphes javanensis (Green, 1905); Lobdell 1937: 80. change of combination
• Opuntiaspis iavanensis Green, 1905; Lindinger 1957: 550. misspelling of species epithet
• Opuntiaspis javanensis Green, 1905; Nakahara 1973: 486. revived combination (previously published)

Common Names

Ecological Associates

Hosts:

Families: 3 | Genera: 4

Geographic Distribution

Keys

• Nakaha1973: pp.486 ( Adult (F) ) [Key to species of Opuntiaspis]
• MacGil1921: pp.295 ( Adult (F) ) [Key to species of Opuntiaspis]

Remarks

• Systematics: Although Ferris (1937) considered Opuntiaspis javanensis Green to be a junior synonym of O. philococcus (Cockerell), Nakahara (1973) determined the two species were in fact distinct.
• Structure: Female scale elongate, narrow; sides subparallel; carinae not very prominent; margin and posterior extremity flattened; reddish-brown to deep purplish brown; margin and posterior extremity whitish. Exuviae reddish. Male scale similar. Adult female elongate, narrow, a transverse furrow and deep lateral cleft approximately bisecting the insect, between meso- and meta-thorax. Derm chitinous (Green, 1905).
• General Remarks: Best description and illustration by Green (1905).

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