Valid Names Results

Poliaspis lactea (Maskell, 1895) (Diaspididae: Poliaspis)

Nomenclatural History

• Mytilaspis lactea Maskell 1895b: 48. Type data: NEW ZEALAND: Wellington and Woodville, on Fuchsia excorticata, by W.M. Maskell. Syntypes, female, Type depository: Auckland: New Zealand Arthropod Collection, Landcare Research, New Zealand; Washington: United States National Entomological Collection, U.S. National Museum of Natural History, District of Columbia, USA; accepted valid name Illustr.
• Lepidosaphes lactea (Maskell, 1895); Fernald 1903b: 310. change of combination
• Fusilaspis lactea (Maskell, 1895); MacGillivray 1921: 290. change of combination
• Phenacaspis lactea (Maskell, 1895); Lindinger 1932f: 203. change of combination
• Trichomytilus lactea (Maskell, 1895); Lindinger 1933a: 165. change of combination
• Poliaspis lactea (Maskell, 1895); Henderson 2011: 134-144. change of combination

Common Names

Ecological Associates

Hosts:

Families: 7 | Genera: 8

Geographic Distribution

Keys

• HardyHe2011: pp.4-6 ( Adult (F) ) [Key to species of Poliaspis (excluding P. intermedia, and P. casuarinicola)]
• MacGil1921: pp.290 ( Adult (F) ) [Key to species of Fusilaspis] Key as: Fusilaspis lactea
• Leonar1903: pp.30 ( Adult (F) ) [Key to species of Mytilaspis] Key as: Mytilaspis lactea

Remarks

• Systematics: Maskell (1895b) mistakenly described this species as having 5 groups of perivulvar pores instead of the 8 groups clearly present on the lectotype slide, hence its erroneous placement by earlier workers outside the appropriate genus Poliaspis. (Henderson, 2011) LECTOTYPE female: NEW ZEALAND, on an original slide labelled "Mytilaspis lactea, adult female, 1894, W.M.M.", [1]: 1 F, cleared and lightly stained. Barcode NZAC02008413 (NZAC). Paralectotypes. (i) on an original slide labelled as above except "female puparium", [1]: a whole scale cover with its 1st- and 2nd-exuvia. Barcode NZAC02007965. (ii) "from Maskell dry material #416, mounted by JA de Boer, 28 vi 1968", [2]: 7 F, 9 exuv2, 3 exuv1 (NZAC).
• Structure: Female scale cover shiny white, frequently covered with a thin layer of bark cells from the host plant, with light yellow terminal exuvia; female body dark caramel colour; Maskell, 1895b) described the female body as dull pink turning to brown, and the male scale cover as small, snowy white, semi-cylindrical, not carinated (Maskell 1895).
• Biology: On stems (Henderson, 2011)
• General Remarks: Description and illustration by Maskell (1895b). Redescription and illustrations in Henderson, 2011.

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