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Aonidia shastae (Coleman)NOMENCLATURE:
Aspidiotus coniferarum shastae Coleman, 1903: 67. Type data: USA: California, Shasta County, Clear Creek, near Shasta P.O., on Cupressus macnabiana; collected August 29, 1901. Syntypes, female. Type depository: Davis: The Bohart Museum of Entomology, University of California, California, USA. Described: female.
Aonidia juniperi Marlatt, 1908c: 24. Type data: USA: Utah, Logan, on fruit of Juniperus sp.; collected by E.G. Titus. Syntypes, female. Type depository: Washington: United States National Entomological Collection, U.S. National Museum of Natural History, District of Columbia, USA; type no. 14123. Described: female. Illust. Synonymy by Ferris, 1943a: 86.
Aspidiotus shastae; Ferris, 1920b: 54. Change of status.
Gonaspidiotus shastae; MacGillivray, 1921: 432. Change of combination.
Targionia juniperi; MacGillivray, 1921: 448. Change of combination.
Aonidia shastae; Ferris, 1938a: 177. Change of combination.
Aspidiotus juniperi; Ferris, 1943a: 86. Change of combination.
Cupressaspis shastae; Borchsenius, 1966: 361. Change of combination.
Aonidia shastae; Danzig, 1993: 214. Revived combination.
COMMON NAMES: red cedar scale [MillerDa2005]; red-wood scale [Borchs1966]; redwood scale [McKenz1956]; Utah cedar scale [MillerDa2005].
Hosts: Cupressaceae: Juniperus [Marlat1908c, Sander1909a, Ferris1938a, McKenz1956], Juniperus virginiana [Ferris1938a], Libocedrus decurrens [Ferris1938a, McKenz1956]. Ericaceae: Macnabia [McKenz1956]. Pinaceae: Cupressus goveniana [Ferris1938a, McKenz1956], Cupressus macnabiana [Colema1903, Sander1906, McDani1968]. Taxodiaceae: Sequoia sempervirens [Ferris1920b, McKenz1956].
DISTRIBUTION: Nearctic: United States of America (Arizona [Nakaha1982], California [Colema1903, Sander1906, McKenz1956], Kansas [Ferris1938a], Missouri [Nakaha1982], New Jersey [Nakaha1982], Oklahoma [Nakaha1982], Texas [McDani1968], Utah [Marlat1908c, Ferris1938a]).
BIOLOGY: Occurring on the needles.
GENERAL REMARKS: Description and illustration of adult female by Marlatt (1908c) (as Aonidia juniperi), Ferris (1920b, 1938a) and by McKenzie (1956).
STRUCTURE: The outer scale of female is a thin, transparent, brownish-white cone, about 1 mm in diameter, with a minute yellowish exuvia at the apex; beneath this shell there is a thick, opaque, reddish-brown skin, enclosing the insect; there is a very thin white ventral scale; the outer scale is very similar to the little drops of exuded gum of the host tree, Cupressus macnabiana (Coleman, 1903). Scale of the female elongate oval, composed of the second exuvia, which in undisturbed specimens is covered with wax and is of a gray color; in rubbed specimens the exuvia shows as yellow or red. Scale of the male oval, exuvia nearly central (Ferris, 1938a).
KEYS: McKenzie 1956: 23 (female) [U.S.A.: California]; Ferris 1942: 29 (female) [North America].
CITATIONS: BenDovGe2003 [catalogue: 77-78]; Borchs1966 [catalogue: 361]; Colema1903 [taxonomy, description, host, distribution: 67]; Ferris1920b [taxonomy, description, illustration, host, distribution: 54-55]; Ferris1921b [taxonomy: 94]; Ferris1938a [taxonomy, description, illustration, host, distribution: 177]; Ferris1941e [taxonomy: 48]; Ferris1942 [taxonomy: 446:29]; Ferris1943a [taxonomy: 86]; FurnisCa1977 [host, distribution: 111]; Koehle1964 [host, distribution, control]; Lawson1917 [taxonomy, description, illustration, host, distribution: 208-209]; MacGil1921 [taxonomy, description, host, distribution: 431-432,448]; Marlat1908c [taxonomy, description, illustration, host, distribution: 24]; McDani1968 [taxonomy, illustration, host, distribution: 207,209]; McKenz1956 [taxonomy, description, illustration, host, distribution: 23,38-39]; MillerDa1990 [economic importance: 301]; MillerDa2005 [taxonomy, description, illustration, host, distribution, economic importance: 142-144]; Nakaha1982 [host, distribution: 6]; Nur1990a [taxonomy, structure, chromosomes: 184-185]; RahmanAn1941 [taxonomy, description: 825]; Sander1906 [taxonomy, host, distribution: 13]; Sander1909a [taxonomy, host, distribution: 56]; SchmutKlLu1957 [host, distribution, economic importance: 493].
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