Mercetaspis isis

Mercetaspis isis
Scientific classification
Kingdom:	Animals
Type of:	Arthropods
Grade:	Insects
Infraclass:	Winged insects
Squad:	Half-winged
Suborder:	Sternorrhyncha
Superfamily:	Coccoidea
Family:	Diaspididae
Gender:	Mercetaspis
View:	Mercetaspis isis
Latin name
	Mercetaspis isis ; (Hall, 1923)
Synonyms
	Coccomytilus isis Hall, 1923; Mytilococcus isis; Nilotaspis isis;

Mercetaspis isis (lat.) Is a species of half-winged insects - a coccid of the genus Mercetaspis from the family Scaras ( Diaspididae ) ^[1] .

Content

Distribution

Africa: Egypt (Luxor). Asia: Israel , Iraq , Iran , Jordan , Tajikistan , Uzbekistan ^[2] ^[1] .

Description

Small scales, adult females 0.9 mm long, 0.5 mm wide, oval in shape. They feed on the juices of such dicotyledonous tamarisk plants as Tamarix sp., Tamarix mannifera ( Tamaricaceae ). The species was first described in 1923 by entomologist W. Hall ( WJ ) as Coccomytilus isis ^[3] ^[1] ^[4] ^[5] . The taxon Mercetaspis isis is included in the genus Mercetaspis Gómez-Menor Ortega, 1927 together with the taxa Mercetaspis arthrophyti , Mercetaspis baluchistanensis , Mercetaspis benitezi , Mercetaspis bicuspis , Mercetaspis calligoni epigrid , ¹ .

Notes

↑ ¹ ² ³ ⁴ Ben-Dov, Y. Mercetaspis isis . Scale insect web catalog . scalenet.info (26th of June, 2014). - Taxonomy. Date of treatment June 30, 2014. (unavailable link)
↑ Ezzat, YM; Afifi, S. Redescription and classification of the scale insects of the family Diaspididae, originally described by WJ Hall from Egypt (Homoptera: Coccoidea ) // Bulletin de la Société Entomologique d'Egypte: Journal. - 1966. - Vol. 49. - P. 367-409.
↑ Hall, WJ Further observations on the Coccidae of Egypt (English) // Bulletin, Ministry of Agriculture, Egypt, Technical and Scientific Service: Journal. - Egypt, 1923. - Vol. 36. - P. 1-61.
↑ Hall, WJ Contribution to the knowledge of the Coccidae of Egypt (English) // Bulletin, Ministry of Agriculture, Egypt, Technical and Scientific Service: Journal. - 1926. - Vol. 72. - P. 1-41.
↑ Ezzat, YM Nada, SMA List of Superfamily Coccoidea as known to exist in Egypt // Bollettino del Laboratorio di Entomologia Agraria 'Filippo Silvestri' (Proceedings of the Fifth International Symposium of Scale Insect Studies): Journal. - 1987. - Vol. 43 (Suppl.). - P. 85-90.

Literature

Borchsenius N.S. Worms and Scutellaria (Coccoidea). - Moscow - Leningrad: Publishing House of the Academy of Sciences of the USSR, 1950. - 1-250 p. - (Keys to the fauna of the USSR, published by the Zoological Institute of the USSR Academy of Sciences . No. 32). - 2000 copies.
Ben-Dov, Yair; German, V. A Systematic Catalog of the Diaspididae (Armored Scale Insects) of the World, Subfamilies Aspidiotinae, Comstockiellinae and Odonaspidinae. - Andover, Hants, UK: Intercept, 2003 .-- P. 1-1112.

Links

Ben-Dov, Y. Mercetaspis isis (English) . Scale insect web catalog . scalenet.info (26th of June, 2014). - Taxonomy. Date of treatment June 30, 2014. (unavailable link)
Mercetaspis isis (English) . eol.org. - Taxonomy. Date of treatment June 30, 2014.

[scalenet-1] ¹ ² ³ ⁴ Ben-Dov, Y. Mercetaspis isis . Scale insect web catalog . scalenet.info (26th of June, 2014). - Taxonomy. Date of treatment June 30, 2014. (unavailable link)

[Ezzat1966-2] Ezzat, YM; Afifi, S. Redescription and classification of the scale insects of the family Diaspididae, originally described by WJ Hall from Egypt (Homoptera: Coccoidea ) // Bulletin de la Société Entomologique d'Egypte: Journal. - 1966. - Vol. 49. - P. 367-409.

[Hall1923-3] Hall, WJ Further observations on the Coccidae of Egypt (English) // Bulletin, Ministry of Agriculture, Egypt, Technical and Scientific Service: Journal. - Egypt, 1923. - Vol. 36. - P. 1-61.

[Hall1926-4] Hall, WJ Contribution to the knowledge of the Coccidae of Egypt (English) // Bulletin, Ministry of Agriculture, Egypt, Technical and Scientific Service: Journal. - 1926. - Vol. 72. - P. 1-41.

[Ezzat1987-5] Ezzat, YM Nada, SMA List of Superfamily Coccoidea as known to exist in Egypt // Bollettino del Laboratorio di Entomologia Agraria 'Filippo Silvestri' (Proceedings of the Fifth International Symposium of Scale Insect Studies): Journal. - 1987. - Vol. 43 (Suppl.). - P. 85-90.