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Rolaspis leucadendri (Brain, 1920) (Diaspididae: Rolaspis)

Chionaspis leucadendri Brain 1920: 98. Type data: SOUTH AFRICA: Cape Town, National Botanical Gardens, 27/01/1914, by H.H.W. Pearson. Lectotype, female, by subsequent designation (Muntin1970a,39). Type depository: Pretoria: South African National Collection of Insects, South Africa; accepted valid name Notes: Munting (1970a) notes that "Brain's accession book gives the above collecting date whereas his published data and slide labels give 27.VII.1914." Illustr.
Duplachionaspis leucadendri (Brain, 1920); MacGillivray 1921: 336. change of combination
Trichomytilus leucadendri (Brain, 1920); Lindinger 1934: 64. change of combination
Rolaspis leucadendri (Brain, 1920); Hall 1946a: 534. change of combination

Families: 1 | Genera: 1

Countries: 1

Muntin1969: pp.140 ( Adult (F) ) [Key to species of Rolaspis]
Hall1946a: pp.534 ( ) [Key to species of Rolaspis]
MacGil1921: pp.336 ( Adult (F) ) [Species of Duplachionaspis] Key as: Duplachionaspis leucadendri

Systematics: The distribution of the dorsal ducts in Rolaspis leucadendri is similar to that of Voraspis carpenteri (Munting, 1965b).
Structure: Female scale about 2.6 mm long, white, smooth, slightly glossy, not very convex, long and narrow, somewhat widened and flattened behind. Exuviae brown; 2nd exuviae covered by a very thin layer of secretion. Male scale large, 1.4 mm long, narrow in front, but quickly widening to about middle, whence it gradually narrows again to the median lobes. Body moderately chitinized (Brain, 1920).
General Remarks: Detailed description and illustration by Brain (1920) and Munting (1965b).