Valid Names Results

Triraphaspis trilobis Mamet, 1957 (Diaspididae: Triraphaspis)

Nomenclatural History

• Triraphaspis trilobis Mamet 1957: 384-386. Type data: REUNION: Bélouve, on an undetermined fern, ?/1/1955, by R. Paulian. Holotype, unknown, Type depository: Paris: Museum National d'Histoire naturelle, France; accepted valid name Illustr.

Common Names

Ecological Associates

Hosts:

Families: 1 | Genera: 1

Geographic Distribution

Keys

• Mamet1959: pp.126 ( ) [Key to species of Triraphaspis]

Remarks

• Systematics: Triraphaspis trilobis differs from T. desmidioides by the presence of a well-developed 3rd lobe, the smaller median lobes, the shape of the outer lobule of the 2nd lobes, the presence of a submedian series of dorsal ducts on the 2nd abdominal segment, the more numerous dorsal ducts and the absence of gland tubercles on the 1st and 2nd abdominal segments submarginally (Mamet, 1957).
• Structure: Female scale elongate, broad, a little convex, white of rather thick texture, with exuviae terminal. Male scale elongate, more slender, without carinae, white, of rather thin texture, more or less translucent, shiny (Mamet, 1957).
• General Remarks: Detailed description and illustration by Mamet (1957).

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