Valid Names Results

Parlatoria asiatica Borchsenius, 1949 (Diaspididae: Parlatoria)

Nomenclatural History

• Parlatoria ephedrae; McKenzie 1945: 63. misidentification (discovered by Balach1953g, 787).
• Parlatoria asiatica Borchsenius 1949b: 341. Type data: KAZAKHSTAN: Muiun-kumy, Kargaly-kul', on Ephedra sp., ?/04-05/1910, by A. Kiritchenko. Syntypes, female, Type depository: St. Petersburg: Zoological Museum, Academy of Science, Russia; accepted valid name Illustr.
• Parlatoria ephedrae; McKenzie 1952: 15. misidentification (discovered by Balach1953g, 787).

Common Names

Ecological Associates

Hosts:

Families: 1 | Genera: 1

Geographic Distribution

Keys

• MoghadWa2021: pp.188-189 ( Adult (F) ) [Parlatoria in Iran]
• Danzig1993: pp.83 ( Adult (F) ) [Key to species of Parlatoria]
• BazaroSh1971: pp.148 ( Adult (F) ) [Key to species of Parlatoria]
• Bustsh1958: pp.186 ( Adult (F) ) [Species of the tribe Diaspidini]
• Balach1953g: pp.776 ( Adult (F) ) [Key to species of Parlatoria]
• Borchs1950b: pp.171 ( Adult (F) ) [Key to species of Parlatoria]

Remarks

• Systematics: Parlatoria asiatica is near P. zizyphi (Borchsenius, 1949b).
• Structure: Female scale oval or pear-shaped; secretory part of scale white, 1.4 mm long and 0.6-0.7 mm wide. Exuviae occupying not less than two-thirds of scale surface, dark green or black. Adult female oval, with large group of cylindrical glands found along the margin of the body on the meso- and metathorax (Borchsenius, 1949b). Slide-mounted adult female subcircular. Anterior spiracles each associated with 2 or 3 disc pores; posterior spiracles without associated disc pores. Thoracic tubercles absent. Pygidium with 3 pairs of lobes, all of similar size. Median and second lobes (L1 and L2) without any notches on margins; third lobes (L3) each with a single notch on either side; fourth lobes (L4) absent. Median and lateral plates fimbriate distally, each about same length as lobes; plates on segments V and IV large, fimbriate; plates on margins of segment II tuberculiform. Dorsal marginal macroducts and submarginal ducts present on prepygidium and pygidium; submedian ducts absent from pygidium. Prosoma with ventral submarginal duct tubercles. Perivulvar pores present in 4 groups. Ventral microducts few, present on pygidial submargin and prepygidium; ventral ducts present also on prosoma, and a few present on submedian areas of abdominal segments. (Moghaddam & Watson, 2021)
• Biology: Mass flight of males of the summer generation at the end of June. Males emerge from under scales chiefly in the evening (Bustshik, 1960).
• General Remarks: Detailed descriptions and illustrations by Borchsenius (1949b) and Balachowsky (1953g).

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