Valid Names Results
Ripersiella mexicana Hambleton, 1946 (Rhizoecidae: Ripersiella)Nomenclatural History
- Ripersiella mexicana Hambleton 1946: 67. Type data: MEXICO: intercepted at San Francisco, California, U.S.A., on undetermined succulent. Holotype, female, Type depository: Washington: United States National Entomological Collection, U.S. National Museum of Natural History, District of Columbia, USA; accepted valid name Illustr.
- Rhizoecus mexicanus (Hambleton, 1946); Hambleton 1976: 37. change of combination
- Ripersiella mexicana Hambleton, 1946; Kozár & Konczné Benedicty 2003: 236. revived combination (previously published)
Common Names
Ecological Associates
Hosts:
Families: 5 | Genera: 24
- Cactaceae
- Cephalocereus | JansenAl2023
- Cereus hildmannianus | JansenAl2023
- Cereus repandus | JansenAl2023
- Cipocereus minensis | JansenAl2023
- Coleocephalocereus aureus | JansenAl2023
- Espostoa | JansenAl2023
- Lobivia ancistrophora | JansenAl2023
- Lophocereus | JansenAl2023
- Mammillaria geminispina | BenDov1994 Hamble1979 | (= Mammillaria leucocentra)
- Mammillaria spinosissima | JansenAl2023
- Melocactus | JansenAl2023
- Myrtillocactus | JansenAl2023
- Opuntia microdasys | JansenAl2023
- Opuntia monacantha | JansenAl2023
- Oreocereus | JansenAl2023
- Pachycereus | JansenAl2023
- Parodia | JansenAl2023
- Pilosocereus | JansenAl2023 JansenAl2023
- Polaskia | JansenAl2023
- Schlumbergera truncata | BenDov1994 Hamble1979 | (= Zygocactus truncatus)
- Stetsonia | JansenAl2023
- Tephrocactus articulatus | JansenAl2023
- Vatricania | JansenAl2023
- Crassulaceae
- Crassula | JansenAl2023
- Euphorbiaceae
- Euphorbia neoarborescens | JansenWe2015
- Piperaceae
- Peperomia | JansenAl2023
- Poaceae
- Poaceae | BenDov1994 Hamble1979a
Geographic Distribution
Countries: 9
- Canary Islands | JansenAl2023
- China | JansenAl2023
- Costa Rica | SzitaKoKo2020
- Mexico | BenDov1994 Hamble1946 WilliaGr1992
- Netherlands | JansenWe2015
- Russia
- St. Petersburg (=Leningrad) Oblast | DanzigGa2009
- Spain | JansenAl2023
- Tanzania | JansenAl2023
- United States
- Florida | BenDov1994 Hamble1979
- Texas | BenDov1994 Hamble1976 Hamble1979a
Keys
- SzitaKoKo2020: pp.579 ( Adult (F) ) [Neotropical Ripersiella]
- JansenWe2015: pp.12, 16 ( Adult (F) ) [Subterranean mealybugs of The Netherlands]
- DanzigGa2009: pp.243 ( Adult (F) ) [Russia]
- KozarKo2007: pp.386-390 ( Adult (F) ) [Ripersiella species of the world]
- KozarKo2004: pp.325-328 ( Adult (F) ) [Ripersiella species of the world]
- WilliaGr1992: pp.497 ( Adult (F) ) [Central and South America ]
- Hamble1979: pp.148 ( Adult (F) ) [U.S.A., Florida]
- Hamble1976: pp.7 ( Adult (F) ) [World]
- Hamble1946: pp.60 ( Adult (F) ) [World]
Remarks
- Biology: Living on the leaves and roots of its host plant (Hambleton, 1979).
- General Remarks: Description and illustration of adult female by Hambleton (1946, 1976), Kozarzhevskaya (1992), Williams & Granara de Willink (1992), Kozár & Konczné Benedicty (2007) and by Danzig & Gavrilov (2009).
Illustrations
Citations
- BenDov1994: catalog, 462
- DanzigGa2009: description, distribution, host, illustration, taxonomy, 232,234
- Hamble1946: description, distribution, host, illustration, taxonomy, 67-70
- Hamble1976: description, distribution, host, illustration, taxonomy, 37, 77
- Hamble1979: distribution, host, 652
- Hamble1979a: distribution, host, 652
- JansenAl2023: dispersal, host, 31,37
- JansenWe2015: distribution, key, 16
- KozarKo2003: taxonomy, 236
- KozarKo2004: taxonomy, 325-330
- KozarKo2007: description, distribution, host, illustration, taxonomy, 500-503
- Kozarz1992: description, distribution, host, illustration, taxonomy, 239-240
- Montan2010: chemical control, host, 232
- SodanoOuSc2023: ant association, morphology, 5
- SzitaKoKo2020: distribution, host, key, 578, 579
- WilliaGr1992: description, distribution, host, illustration, taxonomy, 549, 551, 552
