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Velataspis mimosarum (Cockerell, 1903) (Diaspididae: Velataspis)

Mytilaspis mimosarum Cockerell 1903b: 45-46. Type data: MEXICO: Jalisco, Zapotlan, on Mimosa sp., 6/4/1903, by C.H.T. Townsend. Syntypes, female, Type depository: Washington: United States National Entomological Collection, U.S. National Museum of Natural History, District of Columbia, USA; accepted valid name
Mytilaspis chilopsidis Marlatt 1908c: 27-28. Type data: MEXICO: Oaxaca, Tehuantepec City, on Chilopsis linearis?, 26/05/1896, by C.H.T. Townsend. Syntypes, female, Type depository: Washington: United States National Entomological Collection, U.S. National Museum of Natural History, District of Columbia, USA; junior synonym (discovered by Ferris1937, SI-134). Illustr.
Lepidosaphes chilopsidis (Marlatt, 1908); Sanders 1909: 57. change of combination
Triaspidis chilopsidis (Marlatt, 1908); MacGillivray 1921: 278. change of combination
Triaspidis mimosarum (Cockerell, 1903); MacGillivray 1921: 279. change of combination
Velataspis mimosarum (Cockerell, 1903); Ferris 1937: 134. change of combination
Mytilococcus mimosarum (Cockerell, 1903); Lindinger 1957: 549. change of combination
Velataspis mimosarum (Cockerell, 1903); Borchsenius 1966: 60. revived combination (previously published)

Families: 5 | Genera: 9

Countries: 3

McDani1973: pp.400 ( Adult (F) ) [Key to Texas species of Velataspis]
Ferris1942: pp.SIV-446:64 ( ) [Key to species of Velataspis]
MacGil1921: pp.279 ( Adult (F) ) [Key to species of Triaspidis] Key as: Triaspidis mimosarum

Systematics: Velataspis mimosarum is immediately separable from any other North American species by the extraordinary development of the eyes which form a five-pointed, "starfish" shaped tubercles (Ferris, 1937).
Structure: Female scale 2.0-3.0 mm long, brownish white, narrow, convex, usually curved; exuviae orange-brown. Adult female greenish or pale orange after boiling in KOH. Only 1 pair of distinct lobes, these large and brownish, rounded, slightly crenulated or entire, separated by an interval in which 2 are pointed gland spines (Cockerell, 1903b).
Biology: Adult females were gravid with young in late May (Marlatt, 1908c).
General Remarks: Best description and illustration by Ferris (1921).