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Aonidomytilus durus FerrisNOMENCLATURE:
Aonidomytilus durus Ferris, 1943: 73. Type data: UNITED STATES: California, San Bernardino County, Providence Mountains, Cedar Canyon, on Lycium cooperi, 1940, by G.F. Ferris. Syntypes, female. Type depository: Davis: The Bohart Museum of Entomology, University of California, California, USA. Described: female. Illust.
Dactylaspis dura; Borchsenius, 1966: 33. Change of combination.
COMMON NAME: durus scale [Gill1997].
Hosts: Solanaceae: Lycium cooperi [Ferris1943], Lycium sp. [Borchs1966]
DISTRIBUTION: Nearctic: United States of America (California [Ferris1943]).
GENERAL REMARKS: Detailed description and illustration by Ferris (1943).
STRUCTURE: Scale of female white, elongate and usually irregular in form. Adult female about 1mm long, body irregular, but tending to be definitely pyriform, prosomatic region somewhat swollen (Ferris, 1943).
SYSTEMATICS: Recognized by the host association and lack of marginal macroducts. Apparently first instars also vary from other Aonidomytilus species (Gill, 1997).
KEYS: Gill 1997: 52 (female) [Key to California species of Aonidomytilus]; Ferris 1943: 75 (female) [as Aonidomytilus durus; Revised key to the species of Aonidomytilus].
CITATIONS: Borchs1966 [catalogue, distribution, host, taxonomy: 33]; Ferris1943 [description, distribution, host, illustration, taxonomy: 73,75]; Gill1997 [distribution, host, illustration, taxonomy: 52, 56, 58]; Lindin1957 [taxonomy: 545]; Nakaha1982 [distribution, host: 10]; PooleGe1997 [distribution: 346].
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