Valid Names Results
Rhizaspidiotus albatus Borchsenius, 1949 (Diaspididae: Rhizaspidiotus)Nomenclatural History
- Rhizaspidiotus albatus Borchsenius 1949b: 351. Type data: TURKMENISTAN: Kopet-dag, urochishe Robertovskoe, Firuzinskoe gorge, on Ephedra sp.. Syntypes, female, Type depository: St. Petersburg: Zoological Museum, Academy of Science, Russia; accepted valid name Illustr.
- Rhizaspidiotus albutus Borchsenius, 1949; Danzig 1972b: 346. misspelling of species epithet
Common Names
- bol'shaya ephedrovaya shitovka BazaroSh1971
Ecological Associates
Hosts:
Families: 1 | Genera: 1
- Ephedraceae
- Ephedra | BazaroSh1971 Borchs1949b Danzig1993
- Ephedra przewalskii | Danzig1972b
Geographic Distribution
Countries: 6
- Armenia | BazaroSh1971 Danzig1993
- Kazakhstan
- Vostochno Kazakhstan Oblast | BazaroSh1971 Danzig1993
- Mongolia | Danzig1972b Danzig1993
- Tajikistan (=Tadzhikistan) | BazaroSh1971
- Turkmenistan | Borchs1949b Danzig1993
- Western Sahara | MoghadWa2021
Keys
- MoghadWa2021: pp.212 ( Adult (F) ) [Rhizaspidiotus in Iran]
- Danzig1993: pp.228 ( Adult (F) ) [Palearctic]
- BazaroSh1971: pp.172 ( Adult (F) ) [Central Asia]
Remarks
- Structure: Female scale circular or broadly elliptical, diameter 1.5-2 mm; convex; white; exuviae yellow, placed centrally (Borchsenius, 1949b). Slide-mounted adult female broadly oval. Antennae each with 1 strong, long seta and 2 spiniform prominences. Pygidium wide, with 3 pairs lobes; median lobes (L1) well- developed, closely adpressed. Second and third lobes (L2 and L3), weakly developed but sclerotized and well separated; margin of pygidium with several lobe-like protrusions; margins of pygidium strongly sclerotized, textured with narrow vertical cuticular grooves. (Moghaddam & Watson, 2021)
- General Remarks: Description and illustration of adult female by Borchsenius (1949b) and by Bazarov & Shmelev (1971).
Illustrations
Citations
- Balach1951: taxonomy, 654
- BazaroSh1971: description, distribution, host, illustration, taxonomy, 176-177
- BenDovGe2003: catalog, 742
- Borchs1949b: description, distribution, host, illustration, taxonomy, 351-352
- Borchs1950b: description, distribution, host, taxonomy, 232-233
- Borchs1966: catalog, 246
- Bustsh1960: distribution, host, taxonomy, 181
- Danzig1972b: distribution, host, 346-347
- Danzig1993: description, distribution, host, illustration, taxonomy, 228,233
- DanzigPe1998: catalog, 349
- Gavril2018: reproduction, 243
- MoghadWa2021: diagnosis, distribution, host, illustration, key, taxonomy, 212-214, 250
- TerGri1962: description, distribution, host, taxonomy, 150
