Valid Names Results
Palinaspis quohogiformis (Merrill, 1923) (Diaspididae: Palinaspis)Nomenclatural History
- Targionia quohogiformis Merrill 1923: 167. Type data: U.S.A.: Florida, Miami, on blue trumpet (Bignonia speciosa); collected by Jeff Chaffin, January 19, 1920.. Syntypes, female, Type depository: Davis: The Bohart Museum of Entomology, University of California, California, USA; accepted valid name Illustr.
- Palinaspis quohogiformis (Merrill, 1923); Ferris 1941d: 379. change of combination
Common Names
- quohog-shaped scale Dekle1965c Merril1923
Ecological Associates
Hosts:
Families: 8 | Genera: 8
- Annonaceae
- Annona | Ferris1941d
- Bignoniaceae
- Bignonia callistegioides | Ferris1941d Merril1923 MerrilCh1923 | (= Bignonia speciosa)
- Euphorbiaceae
- Croton | Ferris1941d
- Fabaceae
- Bauhinia | Dekle1965c Ferris1941d
- Moraceae
- Morus | Ferris1941d
- Oleaceae
- Jasminum sambac | Dekle1965c
- Proteaceae
- Grevillea | Dekle1965c Ferris1941d
- Verbenaceae
- Petrea volubilis | Ferris1941d Merril1923 MerrilCh1923
Geographic Distribution
Countries: 4
- Cuba | Ferris1941d
- Puerto Rico & Vieques Island
- Puerto Rico | ColonFMe1998
- Saint Lucia | Ferris1941d
- United States
- Florida | Ferris1941d MerrilCh1923
Keys
- Ferris1942: pp.39 ( Adult (F) ) [North America]
Remarks
- Systematics: GenBank accession numbers D0344A, D0 507A, D0514A, D0514B, GQ425010, GQ424861, GQ425026, GQ425027 and GQ425028 were previously determined to be Palinaspis quohogiformis/<>, but Rutherfordia major is the best-corroborated molecular and morphological ID, (Normark, et al., 2019)
- Structure: Illustration of scale cover by Merrill (1923). Female scale oval; 1-1.4 mm long; shape very similar to that of the Round Clam, commonly called Quohog; the dorsal (upper) and ventral (lower) scales are placed more or less laterally, the ventral scale being unusually developed and forming with the dorsal a bivalve-like arrangement; colour rather brownish, upper edges being generally lighter; scale surface covered with fine particles of sand-like material; exuviae subcentral and ringed with a whitish secretion (Merrill, 1923). Female scale circular or oval, quite high convex, exuvia somewhat displaced toward one side, color brownish the surface sprinkled with minute lumps of amorphous wax-like grains of sand or sugar; ventral scale strongly developed. Scale of the male not known (Ferris, 1941d).
- Biology: Scale of female occurring habitually in leaf buds or "near the junction of a bud and branch" (Ferris, 1941d).
- General Remarks: Description and illustration of adult female by Merrill (1923), Ferris (1941d) and by Colon-Ferrer & Medina-Gaud (1998).
Illustrations
Citations
- BenDovGe2003: catalog, 696
- Borchs1966: catalog, 320
- ColonFMe1998: description, distribution, host, illustration, taxonomy, 75-76
- Dekle1965c: description, distribution, host, taxonomy, 102
- Ferris1941d: description, distribution, host, illustration, taxonomy, 379
- Ferris1942: taxonomy, 445:11; 446:39
- Ferris1943a: taxonomy, 86
- GruwelMoNo2007: endosymbionts, taxonomy, 267-280
- Malump2012b: distribution, 210
- Malump2014a: distribution, host, 77
- Merril1923: description, distribution, host, illustration, taxonomy, 167-168
- Merril1953: description, distribution, host, taxonomy, 65-66
- MerrilCh1923: description, distribution, economic importance, host, taxonomy, 252-253
- MorseNo2006: molecular biology, phylogeny, 338-349
- NormarOkMo2019: genebank, 39
