Valid Names Results

Selenaspidus pumilus (Brain, 1918) (Diaspididae: Selenaspidus)

Nomenclatural History

• Aspidiotus (Selenaspidus) pumilus Brain 1918: 133. Type data: SOUTH AFRICA: Natal, Stanger, on Phormium tenax; collected by C. Fuller, 11.xii.1903.. Lectotype, female, by subsequent designation (Muntin1970a,39). Type depository: Pretoria: South African National Collection of Insects, South Africa; accepted valid name Illustr.
• Entaspidiotus pumilus (Brain, 1918); MacGillivray 1921: 456. change of combination
• Selenaspidus pumilus (Brain, 1918); Mamet 1958a: 396. change of combination

Common Names

Ecological Associates

Hosts:

Families: 2 | Genera: 2

Geographic Distribution

Keys

• Brain1918: pp.130 ( Adult (F) ) [South Africa]

Remarks

• Structure: Female scale about 1.6 mm in diameter, almost circular, margins flat, depressed, centre roundly and flatly conical, dull, grey brown, with yellow exuviae. Male scale smaller, narrower and elongate, of same colour and texture as the female scale (Brain, 1918).
• General Remarks: Description and illustration of adult female by Brain (1918), Green (1926a) and by Mamet (1958a).

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