Valid Names Results

Targionia anabasidis (Borchsenius, 1952) (Diaspididae: Targionia)

Nomenclatural History

• Targaspidiotus anabasidis Borchsenius 1952: 263. Type data: IRAN: Bender-Abbas, Oman bay, on Anabasis aphylla.. Lectotype, female, by subsequent designation (Danzig1993,224). Type depository: St. Petersburg: Zoological Museum, Academy of Science, Russia; accepted valid name Notes: Type data of this species is same as that of Pseudomelanaspis minima Borchsenius, 1952. Illustr.
• Pseudomelanaspis minima Borchsenius 1952: 262. Type data: IRAN: Bender-abbas, Oman bay, on Anabasis aphylla.. Lectotype, female, by subsequent designation (Danzig1993,224). Type depository: St. Petersburg: Zoological Museum, Academy of Science, Russia; junior synonym (discovered by Danzig1993, 224). Notes: Type data of this species is same as that of Targaspidiotus anabasidis Borchsenius, 1952. Illustr.
• Schizotargionia anabasidis (Borchsenius, 1952); Borchsenius 1966: 251. change of combination
• Targionia anabasidis (Borchsenius, 1952); Danzig 1993: 221. change of combination

Common Names

Ecological Associates

Hosts:

Families: 1 | Genera: 2

Geographic Distribution

Keys

• MoghadWa2021: pp.228-229 ( Adult (F) ) [Targionia in Iran]
• Danzig1993: pp.221-222 ( Adult (F) ) [Europe]

Remarks

• Structure: Female scale circular, about 1.5 mm in diameter; slightly convex; colour light brown; exuviae central, covered with white secretionary matter (Borchsenius, 1952). Slide-mounted adult female subrectangular; prosoma membranous at maturity. Thoracic tubercle present as a short, thick spine. Pygidium with 4 pairs of lobes; median lobes (L1) each with rounded apex, symmetrical, with a well-developed basal sclerosis. Second lobes (L2) similar to L1; third lobes (L3) larger than other lobes; fourth lobes (L4) reduced, conical. (Moghaddam & Watson, 2021)
• General Remarks: Description of adult female by Borchsenius (1952) and by Borchsenius & Williams (1963) as Pseudomelanaspis minima Borchsenius.

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