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Diaspis texensis (Cockerell)

NOMENCLATURE:

Aulacaspis texensis Cockerell, 1896j: 83. Type data: UNITED STATES: Texas, San Antonio, on Sophora secundiflora, 27/11/1895, by C.H.T. Townsend. Syntypes, female (examined). Type depository: Washington: United States National Entomological Collection, U.S. National Museum of Natural History, District of Columbia, USA. Described: female.

Diaspis texensis; Fernald, 1903b: 232. Change of combination.



Hosts: Fabaceae: Sophora secundiflora [Cocker1896j], Wisteria sp. [Nakaha1982]. Koeberliniaceae: Koeberlinia spinosa [Bibby1931]. Simarubaceae: Castela nicholsoni [Bibby1931].

DISTRIBUTION: Nearctic: Mexico [Nakaha1982]; United States of America (Texas [Cocker1896j]).

GENERAL REMARKS: Detailed description and illustration by Ferris (1937).

STRUCTURE: Female scale circular, quite flat, white or grayish, exuviae subcentral. Male scale elongate, white or grayish, slightly tricarinate (Ferris, 1937).

SYSTEMATICS: Diaspis texensis most nearly resembles D. manzanitae, but the latter differs in its much fewer pygidial ducts, combined with the presence of both submarginal and submedian groups on all the prepygidial abdominal segments (Ferris, 1937).

KEYS: McKenzie 1947b: 108 (female) [Key to species of Diaspis]; Ferris 1942: SIV-446:52 (female) [Key to species of Diaspis]; MacGillivray 1921: 322 (female) [Key to species of Diaspis].

CITATIONS: Bibby1931 [distribution, host: 590]; Borchs1966 [catalogue, distribution, host, taxonomy: 174]; Cocker1896b [taxonomy: 335]; Cocker1896j [description, distribution, host, taxonomy: 83]; Fernal1903b [catalogue, distribution, host, taxonomy: 232]; Ferris1921 [taxonomy: 96]; Ferris1921b [taxonomy: 93]; Ferris1937 [description, distribution, host, illustration, taxonomy: SI-35, SI-38, SI-42, SI-44]; Ferris1942 [taxonomy: SIV-446:52]; Lobdel1937 [structure: 78]; MacGil1921 [catalogue, distribution, host, taxonomy: 322]; McDani1971 [distribution, host, illustration: 300]; McKenz1947b [distribution, taxonomy: 108, 109, 110]; Miller2005 [distribution: 487]; Muntin1969 [taxonomy: 124]; Nakaha1982 [distribution, host: 33]; PooleGe1997 [distribution: 348]; Scott1952 [taxonomy: 35].



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