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Aspidiotus simulans De LottoNOMENCLATURE:
Aspidiotus simulans De Lotto, 1957: 228. Type data: KENYA: Nairobi, on leaves of Ficus vallis-choudae. Holotype female. Type depository: London: The Natural History Museum, England, UK. Described: female. Illust.
Hosts: Apocynaceae: Acokanthera longiflora [DeLott1957], Acokanthera schimperi [DeLott1957], Nerium oleander [DeLott1957]. Bignoniaceae: Markhamia platycalyx [DeLott1957]. Boraginaceae: Ehretia silvatica [DeLott1957]. Canellaceae: Warburgia stuhlmanni [DeLott1957]. Celastraceae: Elaeodendron [DeLott1957, BrownDe1959], Gymnosporia [BrownDe1959]. Fabaceae: Ceratonia siliqua [DeLott1957]. Flacourtiaceae: Aberia caffra [DeLott1957]. Moraceae: Ficus vallis-choudae [DeLott1957]. Musaceae: Musa paradisiaca [DeLott1957]. Rubiaceae: Rytigynia schumannii [DeLott1957].
DISTRIBUTION: Afrotropical: Kenya [DeLott1957, BrownDe1959].
GENERAL REMARKS: Description and illustration of adult female by De Lotto (1957).
STRUCTURE: Scale of female extremely thin and transparent; dirty white or pale brown in colour; low convex; exuviae golden yellow, central; diameter up to 2 mm. Scale of male elongate, white, up to 1.2 mm. in length (De Lotto, 1957).
KEYS: De Lotto 1957: 228 (female) [Africa].
CITATIONS: BenDovGe2003 [catalogue: 235-236]; Borchs1966 [catalogue: 267]; BrownDe1959 [taxonomy, host, distribution, structure, chromosome: 369-379]; DeLott1957 [taxonomy, description, illustration, host, distribution: 227-228]; Nur1990a [taxonomy, structure, chromosomes: 186]; Trembl1990a [anatomy, structure: 275-283].
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