Valid Names Results

Morganella pseudospinigera Balachowsky, 1956 (Diaspididae: Morganella)

Morganella pseudospinigera Balachowsky 1956: 126. Type data: ZAIRE: Stanleyville, on undetermined plant.. Holotype, female, Type depository: Tervuren: Musee Royal de l'Afrique Centrale, Section d'Entomologie, Belgium; accepted valid name Illustr.

Families: 5 | Genera: 5

Countries: 4

SchneiGiDo2013: pp.816-817 ( Adult (F) ) [Key to the species of ant-associated armoured scale insects (adapted from Ben-Dov, 2010)]
Balach1956: pp.124 ( Adult (F) ) [Africa]

Structure: Female scale circular, 2 mm in diameter; convex; flat; colour brown or black; exuviae central, embedded in secretion of the adult female, dark. Male scale unknown (Balachowsky, 1956).
Biology: Ben-Dov & Matile-Ferrero (1984) and Ben-Dov & Fisher (2010) discussed the association of this species with the ant, Melissotarsus beccarii Emery in Africa. DeJean & Mony (1991) and Mony et al. (2002) studied the association of this armoured scale with Melissotarsus beccarii and M. weissi (Santschi) on mango, Ficus and Briedelia in Yaounde, Cameroon.
General Remarks: Description and illustration of adult female by Balachowsky (1956).