Valid Names Results

Lepidosaphes melaleucae (Maskell, 1896) (Diaspididae: Lepidosaphes)

Nomenclatural History

• Mytilaspis melaleucae Maskell 1896b: 389. Type data: AUSTRALIA: New South Wales, Richmond River, Ballina, on Melaleuca sp., by W.W. Froggatt. Syntypes, female, Type depository: Auckland: New Zealand Arthropod Collection, Landcare Research, New Zealand; Washington: United States National Entomological Collection, U.S. National Museum of Natural History, District of Columbia, USA; accepted valid name Illustr.
• Lepidosaphes melaleucae (Maskell, 1896); Fernald 1903b: 311. change of combination

Common Names

Ecological Associates

Hosts:

Families: 1 | Genera: 1

Geographic Distribution

Keys

• MacGil1921: pp.280 ( Adult (F) ) [Key to species of Lepidosaphes]
• Leonar1903: pp.29 ( Adult (F) ) [Key to species of Mytilaspis] Key as: Mytilaspis melaleucae
• Cocker1899f: pp.14 ( Adult (F) ) [Australian species of Mytilaspis] Key as: Mytilaspis melaleucae

Remarks

• Systematics: Lepidosaphes melaleucae is close to L. casuarinae and Mytilaspis spinifera (=Berlesaspis spinifera) and also to P. exocarpi, but the abdominal characters are distinct (Maskell, 1896b).
• Structure: Female cover elongate, pyriform, convex, secreted portion greyish-white, exuviae terminal, orange. Male cover elongate, subcylindrical, convex, not carinated, secretion white, exuviae terminal, orange. Adult female yellow, elongate (Maskell, 1896b).
• General Remarks: Detailed descriptions and illustrations by Maskell (1896b) and Froggatt (1914).

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