Valid Names Results

Coelostomidia zealandica (Maskell, 1880) (Coelostomidiidae: Coelostomidia)

Nomenclatural History

• Coelostoma zealandica Maskell 1880: 294. Type data: NEW ZEALAND: Otago on bark of large trees, and Canterbury buried in the ground and in the chinks of rocks; W.M. Maskell, April 1879.. Lectotype, larva, by subsequent designation (Morale1991,43). Type depository: Auckland: New Zealand Arthropod Collection, Landcare Research, New Zealand; accepted valid name Illustr.
• Caelostoma zealandicum; Maskell 1884: 141. misspelling of genus name
• Coelostomidia zealandica (Maskell, 1880); Cockerell 1900: 367. change of combination

Common Names

• great giant scale Morale1991

Ecological Associates

Hosts:

Families: 18 | Genera: 18

Foes:

Families: 1 | Genera: 1

Geographic Distribution

Keys

• HodgsoFo2006: pp.191-192 ( Adult (M) ) [Males of Coelostomidiidae]
• Morris1928: pp.117 ( Adult (F) Adult (M) Immature (F) Immature (M) ) [Species of Coelostomidia]

Remarks

• Structure: Maskell (1880) described the female as: "The adult female is brick-red in colour, reaching 0.5 inch in length and more than 0.25 inch in width. It is fat, corrugated, slug-like; there are eleven or twelve corrugations, those toward the head being the widest. It is surrounded by a thick envelope of white cotton, in which it deposits the eggs, which are oval and brick-red in colour".
• General Remarks: Description and illustration of nymph, adult female and adult male by Morrison & Morrison (1922) and by Morrison (1928). Description and illustration of adult female and nymphs given by Morales (1991).

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