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Orthezia cheilanthi Tinsley, 1898 (Ortheziidae: Orthezia)

Nomenclatural History

• Orthezia cheilanthi Tinsley 1898: 12-13. Type data: UNITED STATES: New Mexico, Organ Mountains, on Cheilanthes fendleri, ?/08/1897, by J.D. Tinsley. Syntypes, female, Type depository: Washington: United States National Entomological Collection, U.S. National Museum of Natural History, District of Columbia, USA; accepted valid name Notes: There are 6 syntype slides in USNM. Illustr.

Common Names

Ecological Associates

Hosts:

Families: 1 | Genera: 1

Geographic Distribution

Keys

• Kozar2004: pp.324-325 ( Adult (F) ) [Key to the world species of Orthezia]
• Morris1952: pp.10 ( Adult (F) ) [Species in the Urticae group of Orthezia]
• Morris1925: pp.108 ( Adult (F) ) [Species of the Subgenus Orthezia]
• MacGil1921: pp.113 ( Adult (F) ) [Orthezia species]

Remarks

• Structure: Body is covered with white secretion which forms lateral and subdorsal longitudinal keels. Ovisac has distinct longitudinal ridges above and nearly as distinct ridges below (Tinsley, 1898).
• General Remarks: Original description by Tinsley (1898). Illustration and redescription by Morrison (1925) and Kozár (2004).

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