Valid Names Results
Melanaspis coccolobae Ferris, 1943 (Diaspididae: Melanaspis)Nomenclatural History
- Melanaspis latipyga; Ferris 1941d: 356. misidentification (discovered by Ferris1943, 59).
- Melanaspis coccolobae Ferris 1943: 59. Type data: U.S.A.: Florida, Miami, on Coccoloba laurifolia.. Lectotype, female, by subsequent designation (DeitzDa1986,22). Type depository: Davis: The Bohart Museum of Entomology, University of California, California, USA; accepted valid name Illustr.
- Melanaspis latipiga Ferris, 1941; Borchsenius 1966: 347. misspelling of species epithet
Common Names
Ecological Associates
Hosts:
Families: 3 | Genera: 3
- Moraceae
- Ficus | DeitzDa1986
- Polygonaceae
- Coccoloba | DeitzDa1986
- Coccoloba acapulcensis | DeitzDa1986
- Coccoloba acuminata | DeitzDa1986
- Coccoloba barbadensis | DeitzDa1986
- Coccoloba belizensis | DeitzDa1986
- Coccoloba caracasana | DeitzDa1986
- Coccoloba coronata | DeitzDa1986
- Coccoloba cozumelensis | DeitzDa1986
- Coccoloba cujabensis | DeitzDa1986
- Coccoloba diversifolia | DeitzDa1986 Dekle1965c Ferris1943 | (= Coccoloba floridana) (= Coccoloba laurifolia)
- Coccoloba goldmanii | DeitzDa1986
- Coccoloba hondurensis | DeitzDa1986
- Coccoloba humboldtii | DeitzDa1986
- Coccoloba manzanillensis | DeitzDa1986
- Coccoloba obtusifolia | DeitzDa1986
- Coccoloba reflexiflora | DeitzDa1986
- Coccoloba retusa | DeitzDa1986
- Coccoloba spicata | DeitzDa1986
- Coccoloba striata | DeitzDa1986
- Coccoloba swartzii | DeitzDa1986 | including ssp. urbaniana
- Coccoloba tenuiflora | DeitzDa1986 | (= Coccoloba excoriata)
- Coccoloba tuerckheimii | DeitzDa1986
- Coccoloba uvifera | DeitzDa1986 MatileEt2006
- Coccoloba venosa | DeitzDa1986
- Rubiaceae
- Ixora stenophylla | DeitzDa1986 | (= Ixora acuminata)
Geographic Distribution
Countries: 24
- Bahamas | DeitzDa1986
- Barbados | DeitzDa1986
- Belize | DeitzDa1986
- Cuba | DeitzDa1986 MestreHaEv2011
- Curaçao | DeitzDa1986
- Dominican Republic | DeitzDa1986
- El Salvador | DeitzDa1986
- Grenada | DeitzDa1986 Nakaha1982
- Guadeloupe | MatileEt2006
- Guatemala | DeitzDa1986
- Haiti | DeitzDa1986 PerezG2008
- Honduras | DeitzDa1986
- Jamaica | DeitzDa1986
- Martinique | DeitzDa1986
- Mexico
- Campeche | DeitzDa1986
- Chiapas | CaballRa2018 DeitzDa1986
- Colima | DeitzDa1986 Ferris1943
- Guerrero | DeitzDa1986 Ferris1943
- Morelos | DeitzDa1986
- Nayarit | DeitzDa1986
- Oaxaca | DeitzDa1986 Ferris1943
- Sinaloa | DeitzDa1986
- Veracruz | DeitzDa1986
- Yucatan | DeitzDa1986
- Netherlands Antilles
- Bonaire | DeitzDa1986
- Panama | DeitzDa1986
- Panama Canal Zone | DeitzDa1986
- Puerto Rico & Vieques Island
- Puerto Rico | DeitzDa1986
- Subantarctic islands
- Marion & Prince Edward Island |
- Trinidad and Tobago
- Tobago | DeitzDa1986
- U.S. Virgin Islands | Nakaha1983
- United States
- Florida | DeitzDa1986 Dekle1965c Ferris1943 Merril1953
- Venezuela | DeitzDa1986
Keys
- WeiScNo2021: pp.17-23 ( Adult (F) ) [Aspidiotini from Panama]
- DeitzDa1986: pp.12-15 ( Adult (F) ) [North America]
- Ferris1943: pp.65 ( Adult (F) ) [North America]
Remarks
- Structure: Female scale circular, moderately convex, hard and brittle, black or slightly brown, with the area over the first exuvia white. Scale of the male not identified (Ferris, 1943).
- Biology: Occurring on the bark (Ferris, 1943).
- General Remarks: Description and illustration of adult female by Ferris (1943), Deitz & Davidson (1986) and by Colon-Ferrer & Medina-Gaud (1998).
Illustrations
Citations
- AhmedMi2017: distribution, 1
- BenDovGe2003: catalog, 607-608
- Borchs1966: catalog, 347
- CaballRa2018: distribution, 2
- ColonFMe1998: description, distribution, host, illustration, taxonomy, 67-68
- DeitzDa1986: description, distribution, host, illustration, taxonomy, 22-23
- Dekle1965c: description, distribution, host, taxonomy, 88
- Dekle1976: description, distribution, economic importance, host, taxonomy, 109
- Ferris1941d: description, distribution, host, illustration, taxonomy, 356
- Ferris1943: description, distribution, host, illustration, taxonomy, 59,67
- MatileEt2006: distribution, host, 172
- McKenz1944: taxonomy, 55
- Merril1953: description, distribution, host, taxonomy, 61-62
- MestreHaEv2011: distribution, 13
- Meurge2011: distribution, 81
- Nakaha1982: distribution, host, 54
- Nakaha1983: distribution, host, 13
- PerezG2008: distribution, 214
- WeiScNo2021: key, 22
