Valid Names Results

Ceroplastes cistudiformis Cockerell, 1893 (Coccidae: Ceroplastes)

Nomenclatural History

• Ceroplastes psidii cistudiformis Cockerell 1893i: 104. Type data: MEXICO: Guanajuato, on Bignonia sp. and Chrysanthemum sp.. Lectotype, female, by subsequent designation (GimpelMiDa1974,35). Type depository: Washington: United States National Entomological Collection, U.S. National Museum of Natural History, District of Columbia, USA; accepted valid name
• Ceroplastes cistudiformis Cockerell, 1893; Cockerell 1896b: 331. change in status (level) Notes: Author incorrectly cited.
• Ceroplastes cistudiformis; Cockerell 1898n: 141. subsequent use
• Ceroplastes cistudiformis Fernald 1903b: 150. lapsus calami Notes: Author incorrectly cited.

Common Names

• tortoise wax scale Gill1988 GimpelMiDa1974

Ecological Associates

Hosts:

Families: 13 | Genera: 14

Geographic Distribution

Keys

• FetykoKo2012: pp.293 ( Adult (F) ) [Key to species of Ceroplastes in the Palaearctic Region based on slide-mounted adult females]
• Gill1988: pp.17 ( Adult (F) ) [USA, California]
• GimpelMiDa1974: pp.19 ( Adult (F) ) [USA]

Remarks

• Structure: Adult female hemispherical, 2-5 mm long. The wax cover resembles that of Ceroplastes cirripediformis but darker; see colour photograph in Gill (1988).
• Biology: Gill (1988) reported that this species, apparently, develops one annual generation in USA, California.
• General Remarks: Description and illustration of the adult female given by Gimpel et al. (1974) and by Gill (1988).

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