Valid Names Results

Pinnaspis uvariae (Cockerell & Robinson, 1914) (Diaspididae: Pinnaspis)

Nomenclatural History

• Hemichionaspis uvariae Cockerell & Robinson 1914: 330. Type data: PHILIPPINES: Los Baños, on Uvaria sp., by C.F. Baker. Syntypes, female, Type depository: Albany: New York State Museum Insect Collection, New York, USA; Washington: United States National Entomological Collection, U.S. National Museum of Natural History, District of Columbia, USA; accepted valid name Illustr.
• Pinnaspis uvariae (Cockerell & Robinson, 1914); Ferris & Rao 1947: 29, 42, 44. change of combination

Common Names

• uvaria scale VelasqRi1969

Ecological Associates

Hosts:

Families: 1 | Genera: 1

Geographic Distribution

Keys

• FerrisRa1947: pp.44 ( Adult (F) ) [Key to species of Pinnaspis]
• MacGil1921: pp.342 ( Adult (F) ) [Key to species of Hemichionaspis] Key as: Hemichionaspis uvariae

Remarks

• Structure: Female scale rich reddish-brown, about 1.5 mm long, very narrow, almost linear; exuviae paler and yellower. Male scale hardly over 0.5 mm long, white, parallel-sided, with an obtuse median keel and no distinct lateral ones. Adult female greatly elongated, sides not prominently lobed; yellowish, turning greenish in KOH (Cockerell & Robinson, 1914).

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