Valid Names Results
Tenuiaspis minuta (Green, 1896) (Diaspididae: Tenuiaspis)Nomenclatural History
- Chionaspis minuta Green 1896: 3. Type data: SRI LANKA: Punduloya, on Tetranthera sp.. Syntypes, female, Type depository: London: The Natural History Museum, England, UK; accepted valid name
- Tenuiaspis minuta (Green, 1896); MacGillivray 1921: 339. change of combination
Common Names
Ecological Associates
Hosts:
Families: 1 | Genera: 1
- Lauraceae
- Tetranthera | Green1896
Geographic Distribution
Countries: 2
- India | Ali1969a Green1937
- Kerala | Ramakr1930
- Sri Lanka | Ali1969a Green1896
Keys
- MacGil1921: pp.339 ( Adult (F) ) [Key to species of Tenuiaspis]
- Green1899a: pp.108 ( ) [Synopsis of Chionaspis species] Key as: Chionaspis minuta
Remarks
- Structure: A very small species, appearing to the naked eye like a minute yellowish speck under surface of host leaf. Female scale colorless and transparent. Male scale also very thin. Adult female very pale yellow with minute black eye-spots. Pygidium with a median longitudinal rounded ridge from anal orifice to extremity. Median and 1st lateral lobes projecting, but very minute and inconspicuous. Other lobes obsolete (Green, 1899a).
- General Remarks: Best description and illustration by Green (1899a).
Illustrations
Citations
- Ali1969a: distribution, host, 73
- Balach1954e: taxonomy, 172
- DoAC1923: distribution, host, 65
- Ferris1936a: taxonomy, 23
- Ferris1937a: illustration, 28
- Green1896: description, distribution, host, taxonomy, 3
- Green1899a: description, distribution, host, illustration, taxonomy, 108, 128
- Green1937: catalog, distribution, host, 317
- Lindin1943b: taxonomy, 265
- MacGil1921: distribution, host, taxonomy, 339
- Ramakr1921a: catalog, distribution, host, 352
- Ramakr1930: distribution, 55
- Willia2017a: catalog, list of species, 227
