Valid Names Results

Pseudaulacaspis megaloba (Green, 1899) (Diaspididae: Pseudaulacaspis)

Chionaspis megaloba Green 1899a: 149. Type data: SRI LANKA: Kandy, on Psidium sp., January, by A. Koebele. Syntypes, female, Type depository: London: The Natural History Museum, England, UK; accepted valid name Illustr.
Phenacaspis megaloba (Green, 1899); Fernald 1903b: 238. change of combination
Chionaspis (Phenacaspis) megaloba Green, 1899; Misra 1924: 348. change of combination
Trichomytilus megalobus (Green, 1899); Lindinger 1933a: 165. change of combination requiring emendation of specific epithet for agreement in gender
Pseudaulacaspis megaloba (Green, 1899); Takagi 1985: 47. change of combination

Families: 4 | Genera: 5

Countries: 3

WeiFe2012a: pp.13-16 ( Adult (F) ) [Key to Chinese species of the genus Pseudaulacaspis]
MacGil1921: pp.345 ( ) [Key to species of Phenacaspis]
Green1899a: pp.108 ( Adult (F) ) [Synopsis of Chionaspis species] Key as: Chionaspis megaloba

Structure: Female scale whitish or very pale ochreous, semi opaque, surface with numerous hairs detached from the leaf of host, exuviae pale yellow, moderately convex, oblong, 1.25 mm long, 0.80 mm wide. Ventral scale thin, remains attached to host. Male scale opaque white, conspicuously tricarinate, rather broad, widened behind, 1.0 mm long, 0.5 mm wide. Adult female abruptly narrowed in front, broadly rounded behind, yellow. Pygidium broad, deeply incised at extremity, sides of the cleft occupied by the very large and conspicuous median lobes, their bases united, their free edges minutely serrate, their distal extremity scarcely projecting beyond the margin. 2nd and 3rd lobes minute, duplex, each lobule with simple rounded extremity (Green, 1899a).
General Remarks: Detailed description and illustration by Green (1899a).