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Phaulomytilus striatus (Maskell, 1895) (Diaspididae: Phaulomytilus)

Mytilaspis striata Maskell 1895b: 47. Type data: AUSTRALIA: New South Wales, Sydney, on Casuarina sp., by W.W. Froggatt. Syntypes, female, Type depository: Auckland: New Zealand Arthropod Collection, Landcare Research, New Zealand; London: The Natural History Museum, England, UK; Sacramento: California State Collection of Arthropods, California Dept. Food & Agriculture, California, USA; Washington: United States National Entomological Collection, U.S. National Museum of Natural History, District of Columbia, USA; accepted valid name Illustr.
Lepidosaphes striata (Maskell, 1895); Fernald 1903b: 314. change of combination
Phaulomytilus striatus (Maskell, 1895); Leonardi 1904: 5. change of combination requiring emendation of specific epithet for agreement in gender

Families: 2 | Genera: 2

Countries: 1

Cocker1899f: pp.13 ( Adult (F) ) [Australian species of Mytilaspis] Key as: Mytilaspis striata

Structure: Female scale cover elongated, mussel-shaped, rather convex. The secreted portion exhibits many transverse bands of silvery-white color, separated by narrower bands of dark grey. Exuviae orange. Adult female orange, darkening with age to brown (Maskell, 1895b).
General Remarks: Detailed descriptions and illustrations by (Maskell, 1895b) and Morrison & Morrison (1922).