Valid Names Results
Poliaspis waibenensis Hardy & Henderson, 2011 (Diaspididae: Poliaspis)Nomenclatural History
- Poliaspis waibenensis Hardy & Henderson 2011: 31,33-34. Type data: AUSTRALIA: Queensland, Thursday Island [-10.58,142.22], on leaves of Lumnitzera racemosa, 9/2/2004, by B. Waterhouse. Holotype, female, by original designation Type depository: Canberra: Australian National Insect Collection, CSIRO Entomology, Australia; accepted valid name Notes: Paratypes: 10 adult females: Queensland, Atherton [-17.27, 145.48], on leaves of Parsonsia straminea, 2/1/1982, by J. Donaldson Illustr.
Common Names
Ecological Associates
Hosts:
Families: 5 | Genera: 5
- Apocynaceae
- Parsonsia straminea | HardyHe2011
- Combretaceae
- Lumnitzera racemosa | HardyHe2011
- Lythraceae
- Pemphis acidula | HardyHe2011
- Moraceae
- Ficus | HardyHe2011
- Rhizophoraceae
- Rhizophora | HardyHe2011
Geographic Distribution
Countries: 1
- Australia
- Queensland | HardyHe2011
Keys
- HardyHe2011: pp.4-6 ( Adult (F) ) [Key to species of Poliaspis (excluding P. intermedia, and P. casuarinicola)]
Remarks
- Systematics: urn:lsid:zoobank.org:act:4A9E74E1-428A-4257-9FCE-6 5A2FDDC1AE1 (Hardy & Henderson, 2011)
P. waibenensis is very similar to P. naamba. P. naamba adult females can be distinguished from those of P. waibenensis by (1) lacking a strong duct spur between the medial and second lobes (present in P. waibenensis); (2) having pores associated with the posterior spiracles (lacking in P. waibenensis); and (3) with prepygidial margin of abdomen only weakly lobed (strongly lobed in P. waibenensis). The two species also have different host associations, with P. naamba almost always collected from Melaleuca species, and P. waibenensis from mangrove plants. (Hardy & Henderson, 2011)
- Structure: Slide-mounted adult female body outline fusiform to pyriform, with weakly-developed lobes on pre-pygidial abdominal segments. Pygidium with 2 pairs of lobes; median lobes zygotic, divergent, lobes connected via broad (more than half width of lobes) sclerosis, each lobe wider than long, with rounded apex; margin between lobes incised; second lobe bi-lobed, ca. as large as medial lobe, medial lobule larger and with stronger basal sclerosis. (Hardy & Henderson, 2011)
- General Remarks: Detailed description and illustration in Hardy & Henderson, 2011.
Illustrations
Citations
- HardyHe2011: description, distribution, host, illustration, structure, taxonomy, 31,33-34
