Valid Names Results
Lepidosaphes micronesiensis Takahashi, 1942 (Diaspididae: Lepidosaphes)Nomenclatural History
- Lepidosaphes micronesiensis Takahashi 1942d: 355-357. Type data: FEDERATED STATES OF MICRONESIA: Ponape, Paliker, on Bentinckiopsis ponapensis, 30/12/1939, by T. Esaki. Syntypes, female, Type depository: Taichung: Entomology Collection, Taiwan Agricultural Research Institute, Wu-feng, Taichung, Taiwan; accepted valid name Illustr.
Common Names
Ecological Associates
Hosts:
Families: 1 | Genera: 2
- Arecaceae
- Clinostigma ponapense | Takaha1942d | (= Bentinckiopsis ponapensis)
- Metroxylon amicarum | Beards1966 | (= Coelococcus amicarum)
Geographic Distribution
Countries: 1
- Federated States of Micronesia
- Caroline Islands | Beards1966
- Pohnpei Island | Takaha1942d
Keys
- Beards1966: pp.534 ( Adult (F) ) [Key to known Micronesian species of Lepidosaphes]
Remarks
- Systematics: Lepidosaphes micronesiensis is related to L. cocculi and L. euryae, but is much different from L. marginata from the Marquesas Islands, in which the pygidium is very widely sclerotized on the margin (Takahashi, 1942d).
- Structure: Female scale purplish brown, but brownish black in older females, very narrowly paler at the margin, moderately widened posteriorly, somewhat curved, about 2.25 mm long and 0.9 mm wide. Second larval skin paler on the abdomen, especially on the marginal area, 0.62-0.75 mm long and 0.3-0.38 mm wide (Takahashi, 1942d).
- General Remarks: Best description and illustration by Takahashi (1942d).
Illustrations
Citations
- Ali1969a: distribution, host, 57
- Beards1966: distribution, host, taxonomy, 534, 541
- Borchs1966: catalog, distribution, host, taxonomy, 50
- Takaha1942d: description, distribution, host, illustration, taxonomy, 355-357
