Valid Names Results

Pseudotargionia glandulosa (Newstead, 1911) (Diaspididae: Pseudotargionia)

Nomenclatural History

• Aonidia glandulosa Newstead 1911: 103. Type data: EGYPT: Upper Egypt, on "Sunt", Acacia arabica.. Lectotype, fossil, by subsequent designation (BenDov1974b,323). Type depository: London: The Natural History Museum, England, UK; accepted valid name
• Pseudotargionia glandulosa (Newstead, 1911); Lindinger 1912b: 50. change of combination
• Pseudaonidia quadriareolata Malenotti 1916a: 334. Type data: SOMALIA: Allengo, on Acacia asak; collected September 1913.. Syntypes, female, junior synonym (discovered by Ferris1941e, 238). Illustr.
• Pseudaonidia glandulosa (Newstead, 1911); Brain 1919: 208. change of combination
• Pseudoaonidia glandulosa occitalis Rungs 1935: 273. Type data: MOROCCO: Ourika N'Tamsift and Ouled Youb (Oued Draa) on Acacia raddiana, Assif el Mal (Grand Atlas 1100 m) on Acacia gummifera and Merkala (Hammada du Draa) on Acacia seyal.. Syntypes, female and first instar, Type depository: Paris: Museum National d'Histoire naturelle, France; junior synonym (discovered by Borchs1966, 238).
• Pseudaonidia glandulosa occitalis (Rungs, 1935); Rungs 1935: 273. misspelling of species epithet Notes: Misspelling of occitalis for occidentalis.
• Pseudotargionia glandulosa occidentalis (Rungs, 1935); Rungs 1942: 107. change of combination
• Pseudotargionia glandulosa occidentalis (Newstead, 1911); Rungs 1942: 107. emendation that is justified
• Pseudotargionia quadriareolata (Malenotti, 1916); Balachowsky & Kaussari 1951: 3. change of combination

Common Names

• Newstead acacia scale AbdRabEv2021

Ecological Associates

Hosts:

Families: 2 | Genera: 2

Foes:

Families: 3 | Genera: 3

Geographic Distribution

Keys

• MoghadWa2021: pp.208 ( Adult (F) ) [Pseudotargionia in Iran]
• BenDov1974b: pp.324 ( Adult (F) ) [Africa]
• Muntin1969: pp.136 ( Adult (F) ) [Africa]
• Ezzat1958: pp.242 ( Adult (F) ) [Egypt]
• Brain1919: pp.206 ( Adult (F) ) [South Africa]

Remarks

• Structure: Newstead (1911) described the scale cover: "Female scale circular, diameter 1.25 mm; straw-coloured or ochreous buff with faint patches of dull orange-yellow; highly convex, sometimes obconical, with the highest portion towards the anterior margin; margins thin and sometimes rounded; larval pellicle yellow, generally completely hidden; second pellicle invariably covered with secretion; ventral surface white, with an external zone of pale yellow white; second pellicle large, bright orange-yellow, nude; ventral scale white, thick at the margin, thin and semi-transparent centrally. Male scale with the cephalic segment strongly defined and distinctly articulated; anterior margin very broadly rounded". Brain (1919) described the scale cover: "Female scale elongate, very occasionally almost circular, about 1.25 to 1.5 mm. in diameter, white at first, sometimes faintly buff, with dark brown or resinous exuviae. Male scale similar, but smaller, with pale exuviae".
• General Remarks: Description and illustration of adult female by Newstead (1911), Brain (1919), Balachowsky (1951, 1958b). Data on the intraspecific variation in the number of macroducts on the female's pygidium by Ben-Dov (1974).

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