Aspidiotus furcraeicola (lat.) Is a species of half-winged insects - coccid of the genus Aspidiotus from the family Scarabidae ( Diaspididae ) [1] .
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Distribution
East Africa : Tanzania [1] .
Description
Small scales , diameter of adult females from 1.5 to 2 mm, body shape rounded; the main color is brown. Males are elongated, length 1.5 mm, width 1 mm, whitish-yellow. They feed on the juices of such aronnikovye plants as Anthurium andreanum ( Aroid , Araceae ). The species was first described in 1910 by the German entomologist Karl Lindinger ( Karl Hermann Leonhard Lindinger , 1879-1956) as Spinaspidiotus furcraeicolus [1] . The taxon Aspidiotus furcraeicola is included in the genus Aspidiotus along with the taxa A. albopicta , A. aliena , A. oliveirae [1] [2] .
See also
- Aonidiella araucariae
- Amonostherium arabicum
Notes
- ↑ 1 2 3 4 Ben-Dov, Y. Aspidiotus furcraeicola (English) (unavailable link) . Scale insect web catalog . scalenet.info (26th of June, 2014). - Taxonomy. Date of treatment July 11, 2014. Archived August 11, 2014.
- ↑ Lindinger, L. Afrikanische Schildläuse. III. (Cocciden des ostlichen Afrikas.) (German) // Jahrbuch der Hamburgischen Wissenschaftlichen Anstalten: Journal. - Hamburg, 1910. - Vol. 27. - P. 33-48.
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. Aspidiotus furcraeicola (English) (unavailable link) . Scale insect web catalog . scalenet.info (26th of June, 2014). - Taxonomy. Date of treatment July 11, 2014. Archived August 11, 2014.
- Aspidiotus (English) . eol.org. - Taxonomy. Date of treatment July 11, 2014.