Valid Names Results
Pinnaspis dracaenae (Cooley, 1899) (Diaspididae: Pinnaspis)Nomenclatural History
- Hemichionaspis dracaenae Cooley 1899: 57. Type data: YEMEN: Socotra Island, on Dracaena cinnabari, by W.S. MacDougall. Syntypes, female, Type depository: Washington: United States National Entomological Collection, U.S. National Museum of Natural History, District of Columbia, USA; accepted valid name Illustr.
- Pinnaspis dracaenae (Cooley, 1899); Ramakrishna Ayyar 1930: 17. change of combination
Common Names
Ecological Associates
Hosts:
Families: 4 | Genera: 4
- Arecaceae
- Areca catechu | BhasinRo1954
- Asparagaceae
- Dracaena cinnabari | Cooley1899
- Euphorbiaceae
- Malvaceae
- Pachira aquatica | Green1905
Geographic Distribution
Countries: 4
- India | Ali1969a
- Kerala | Fletch1919
- Indonesia
- Java | Green1905
- Sri Lanka | Green1922
- Yemen | Cooley1899
Keys
- FerrisRa1947: pp.43 ( Adult (F) ) [Key to species of Pinnaspis]
- MacGil1921: pp.340 ( Adult (F) ) [Key to species of Hemichionaspis] Key as: Hemichionaspis dracaenae
- Cocker1902b: pp.82 ( ) [Key to species of Hemichionaspis] Key as: Hemichionaspis dracaenae
- Cooley1899: pp.45 ( Adult (F) ) [Key to species of Hemichionaspis] Key as: Hemichionaspis dracaenae
Remarks
- Structure: Female scale 1.3-1.6 mm long, pyriform, thin and delicate, white; exuviae 0.6 mm long, brownish. Male scale 0.8 mm long, delicate in texture, feebly uncarinated. Exuviae yellowish-brown, occupying nearly one half of the length of the scale. Adult female broad, nearly oval, feebly segmented. Median lobes quite long and narrow, irregularly crenate, usually slightly separated along their inner edges (Cooley, 1899).
- General Remarks: Detailed description and illustration by Ferris & Rao (1947).
Illustrations
Citations
- Ali1969a: distribution, host, 63-64
- BhasinRo1954: distribution, host, 82
- Borchs1966: catalog, distribution, host, taxonomy, 113
- Cocker1902b: taxonomy, 82
- Cooley1899: description, distribution, host, illustration, taxonomy, 45, 57
- FerrisRa1947: description, distribution, host, illustration, taxonomy, 28, 33-34, 43
- Fletch1919: distribution, host, 298
- Green1905: distribution, host, 29
- Green1922: distribution, host, taxonomy, 464
- Green1937: catalog, distribution, host, taxonomy, 322
- MacGil1921: distribution, host, taxonomy, 340
- Ramakr1919a: distribution, host, 13
- Ramakr1919b: distribution, host, 96
- Ramakr1921a: catalog, distribution, host, 353
- Ramakr1930: distribution, host, 17
- Varshn2002: distribution, host, 70
- Willia2017a: catalog, list of species, 222
- ZarkanApTu2021: distribution, host, 169
