Valid Names Results

Poliaspis wilga (Leonardi, 1903) (Diaspididae: Poliaspis)

Nomenclatural History

• Mytilaspis wilga Leonardi 1903: 43-44. Type data: AUSTRALIA: New South Wales, Condobolin, on Geijera parviflora, 17/10/1900, by W.W. Froggatt. Syntypes, female, Type depository: London: The Natural History Museum, England, UK; Portici: Dipartimento de Entomologia e Zoologia Agraria di Portici, Universita di Napoli Federico II, Italy; accepted valid name Illustr.
• Lepidosaphes wilga (Leonardi, 1903); Sanders 1906: 17. change of combination
• Leonardaspis wilga (Leonardi, 1903); MacGillivray 1921: 287. change of combination
• Poliaspis wilga (Leonardi, 1903); Hardy & Henderson 2011: 33,35-36. change of combination Notes: Lectotype female designated in Hardy & Henderson, 2011, slide labelled: "on wilga, Geijera parviflora, Condobolin, 17.x.1900, WW Froggatt (339), BM 1964-4, CIE" (BMNH).

Common Names

Ecological Associates

Hosts:

Families: 2 | Genera: 2

Geographic Distribution

Keys

• HardyHe2011: pp.4-6 ( Adult (F) ) [Key to species of Poliaspis (excluding P. intermedia, and P. casuarinicola)]
• MacGil1921: pp.287 ( Adult (F) ) [Key to species of Leonardaspis]
• Leonar1903: pp.29 ( Adult (F) ) [Key to species of Mytilaspis] Key as: Mytilaspis wilga

Remarks

• Systematics: P. wilga is the only species of Poliaspis to have only the median lobes present. It can also be recognized by the loose groupings of more than 2 marginal ducts on abdominal segments 6 and 7. (Hardy & Henderson, 2011)
• Structure: Pygidium with only a single pair of distinct lobes, the median pair short, about as broad as long, distal margin broad, notched on mesal and lateral margins; plates arranged 2, 3, those of median incisura short and small, hardly longer than median pair of lobes, those of each lateris much longer and arranged singly and distant from each other; margin of lateris thickened, toothed (MacGillivray, 1921).
• General Remarks: Detailed description and illustration by Borchsenius & Williams (1963).

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