Valid Names Results

Pseudaspidoproctus hyphaeniacus (Hall, 1925) (Monophlebidae: Pseudaspidoproctus)

Nomenclatural History

• Aspidoproctus hyphaeniacus Hall 1925: 1. Type data: EGYPT: Kharga Oasis, on Hyphaene thebaica; October 1924, collected C.B. Williams.. Syntypes, female, male, and first instar, Type depository: London: The Natural History Museum, England, UK; accepted valid name Illustr.
• Pseudaspidoproctus hyphaeniacus (Hall, 1925); Morrison 1927: 104. change of combination
• Pseudaspidoproctus armeniacus Borchsenius 1949b: 338. Type data: ARMENIA: Megri; collected 25.x.1947 by N. Borchsenius; AZERBAIJAN: Ordubadski Ridge; collected 29.vii.1933; both collections from Stipa.. Syntypes, female, Type depository: St. Petersburg: Zoological Museum, Academy of Science, Russia; junior synonym (discovered by Jashen1999, 43). Notes: Borchsenius (1949b) recorded Stipa as the host, whereas Borchsenius (1950b) listed it as Verbascum.

Common Names

Ecological Associates

Hosts:

Families: 4 | Genera: 6

Geographic Distribution

Keys

• MoghadWa2024: pp.169 ( Adult (F) ) [Species of Pseudaspidoproctus in Iran]
• Watson2022: pp.337 ( Adult (F) ) [Pseudaspidoproctus in Africa]
• TangHa1995: pp.196, 618 ( Adult (F) ) [Asia]
• Borchs1950b: pp.42 ( Adult (F) ) [USSR]

Remarks

• Structure: Live adult female ovoid, exposed on the host-plant during the growing period; body with dorsum strongly convex, flattened ventrally, with some powdery secretion; eggs deposited within an internal marsupium having a U-shaped or V-shaped opening (Morrison 1928). Slide-mounted adult female broadly oval, derm not definitely chitinised. Median part of thoracic dorsum dominated by short and long setae. Antennae each with 8‒10 segments. Thoracic spiracles each large but not conspicuous, with bar but without a group of pores at opening. Abdominal spiracles numbering 7 pairs, each much smaller than a thoracic spiracle, inconspicuous, with a thickened rim. Cicatrices numbering 3 set close together, each usually more-or-less irregular in shape. Anal tube short, with a row of wax pores at inner end, somewhat sclerotized. Multilocular disc-pores each with 1, or 3 or 4, circular central loculi and with 5‒8 outer loculi. (Moghaddam & Watson, 2024)
• Biology: Found on fronds of the host plant (Hall, 1925).
• General Remarks: Description and illustration of nymph and adult female by Hall (1925), Morrison (1928) and by Borchsenius (1949b, 1950b).

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