Valid Names Results

Graminorthezia minor (Morrison, 1925) (Ortheziidae: Graminorthezia)

Nomenclatural History

• Orthezia minor Morrison 1925: 127-128. Type data: CUBA: Oriente Province, Loona de Joaquin, on Graffenriedia chrysandra, 20/07/1922, by C.H. Ballou & S.C. Bruner. Syntypes, female, by original designation Type depository: Washington: United States National Entomological Collection, U.S. National Museum of Natural History, District of Columbia, USA; accepted valid name Notes: Although Morrison marked a specimen as the holotype, he did not mention a primary type in the original description (Morrison, 1925). Therefore, a lectotype should be designated. There are 2 syntypes on a single slide in the USNM. Illustr.
• Graminorthezia minor (Morrison, 1925); Kozár 2004: 282. change of combination

Common Names

Ecological Associates

Hosts:

Families: 1 | Genera: 1

Geographic Distribution

Keys

• Kozar2004: pp.272-273 ( Adult (F) ) [Key to the species of Graminorthezia]
• Morris1952: pp.8 ( Adult (F) ) [Species in the Graminis group of Orthezia]
• Morris1925: pp.108 ( Adult (F) ) [Species of the Subgenus Orthezia]

Remarks

• Structure: Adult female small, completely covered dorsally and ventrally with strongly developed plates of buff colored waxy secretion (Morrison, 1925).
• General Remarks: Original description and illustration by Morrison (1925). Change of combination, redescription and illustration by Kozár (2004).

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