Valid Names Results

Semelaspidus artocarpi (Green, 1896) (Diaspididae: Semelaspidus)

Nomenclatural History

• Aspidiotus artocarpi Green 1896c: 200. Type data: INDIA: Bombay, on leaves of "Jak tree" (Artocarpus integrifolia). Syntypes, female, Type depository: London: The Natural History Museum, England, UK; accepted valid name Illustr.
• Aspidiotus (Mycetaspis ?) artocarpi Green, 1896; Cockerell 1897i: 27. change of combination
• Targionia artocarpi (Green, 1896); Leonardi 1900: 315. change of combination
• Aspidiotus (Chrysomphalus) cistuloides Green 1905a: 342. Type data: SRI LANKA: Peradeniya, on Cinnamomum sp.. Syntypes, female, Type depository: London: The Natural History Museum, England, UK; junior synonym (discovered by Rao1951b, 261). Illustr.
• Chrysomphalus cistuloides (Green, 1905); Sanders 1906: 15. change of combination
• Aspidiotus (Chrysomphalus) triglandulosus Green 1908a: 33. Type data: INDIA: Bombay, Mahableshwar, on undetermined tree.. Syntypes, female, Type depository: London: The Natural History Museum, England, UK; junior synonym (discovered by Rao1951b, 261). Illustr.
• Aspidiotus triglandulosus Green, 1908; Ramakrishna 1919a: 21. change of combination
• Partargionia artocarpi (Green, 1896); MacGillivray 1921: 458. change of combination
• Semelaspidus cistuloides (Green, 1905); MacGillivray 1921: 451. change of combination
• Semelaspidus triglandulosa (Green, 1908); MacGillivray 1921: 451. change of combination requiring emendation of specific epithet for agreement in gender
• Chrysomphalus (Aspidiotus) triglandulosus (Green, 1908); Ramakrishna 1924: 344. change of combination
• Aspidiotus cistuloides Green, 1905; Ferris 1937c: 52. change of combination
• Melanaspis cistuloides (Green, 1905); Lindinger 1943a: 147. change of combination
• Melanaspis triglandulosa (Green, 1908); Lindinger 1943a: 147. change of combination
• Semelaspidus artocarpi (Green, 1896); Rao 1951: 261. change of combination

Common Names

Ecological Associates

Hosts:

Families: 3 | Genera: 3

Geographic Distribution

Keys

• WeiFe2010: pp.308 ( ) [Key to species of the genus Semelaspidus (Adult female)]
• Willia1957a: pp.42 ( Adult (F) ) [World]

Remarks

• Structure: Scale of female moderately convex, oval, 2.5 mm. X 1.5 mm; the ventral scale elevated at one end and overlapping the dorsal scale; exuviae of first stage larva reddish-brown and situated towards one end. Male scale black, elongate, 1.25 mm. X 0.75 mm. (Williams, 1957a).
• General Remarks: Description and illustration of adult female by Green (1905a) and by Williams (1957a).

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