Valid Names Results

Praelongorthezia garryae (Cockerell, 1898) (Ortheziidae: Praelongorthezia)

Nomenclatural History

• Orthezia garryae Cockerell 1898t: 401-402. Type data: UNITED STATES: New Mexico, Organ Mountains, Dripping Spring, on Garrya wrightii, ?/08/1898, by T.D.A. Cockerell & Mendoza. Syntypes, female, Type depository: Washington: United States National Entomological Collection, U.S. National Museum of Natural History, District of Columbia, USA; accepted valid name Notes: There are 2 syntype slides in the USNM.
• Praelongorthezia garryae (Cockerell, 1898); Kozár 2004: 400. change of combination

Common Names

Ecological Associates

Hosts:

Families: 2 | Genera: 2

Geographic Distribution

Keys

• Kozar2004: pp.382 ( Adult (F) ) [Key to the species of Praelongorthezia]
• Morris1952: pp.6 ( Adult (F) ) [Species in the Praelonga group of Orthezia]
• Morris1925: pp.107 ( Adult (F) ) [Species of the Subgenus Orthezia]
• MacGil1921: pp.112 ( Adult (F) ) [Orthezia species]

Remarks

• Structure: Adult female body is pale pea green. Ovisac strongly curved upwards, composed of ribbon-like longitudinal bands, which are contiguous, but little or not coherent. Larvae pale yellow, covered with white lamellae which form a high and thick dorsal crest, covering the back (Morrison, 1925).
• Biology: Cockerell (1898t) reported females producing young in mid August.
• General Remarks: Original description by Cockerell (1898t). Later and more detailed description and illustration by Morrison (1925). Change of combination, redescription and illustration by Kozár (2004).

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