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Asterolecanium viridulum Cockerell, 1902 (Asterolecaniidae: Asterolecanium)

Nomenclatural History

Asterolecanium viridulum Cockerell 1902i: 89. Type data: ARGENTINA: Tucuman, "on a kind of ironweed". Syntypes, female, by original designation Type depository: Washington: United States National Entomological Collection, U.S. National Museum of Natural History, District of Columbia, USA; accepted valid name

Common Names

Argentine pit scale StumpfLa2006

Ecological Associates

Hosts:

Families: 1 | Genera: 4

Asteraceae

Asteraceae | Morris1919
Baccharis coridifolia | Russel1941 StumpfLa2006
Eupatorium | Russel1941 StumpfLa2006
Vernonia | Russel1941 StumpfLa2006

Geographic Distribution

Countries: 2

Argentina

Corrientes | Russel1941
Misiones | Morris1919 Russel1941
Tucuman | Cocker1902i Russel1941

Brazil | Russel1941

Sao Paulo | Lepage1938 Russel1941

Keys

GranarGoSt2023: pp.8 ( Adult (F) ) [Species of Asterolecanium in Argentina]
StumpfLa2006: pp.22-32 ( Adult (F) ) [Asterolecaniidae species of Northe and South America]
Russel1941: pp.12-26 ( Adult (F) ) [Species of Asterolecanium]
Russel1941: pp.26-35 ( Immature (F) ) [Species of Asterolecanium]

Remarks

Structure: With two or three rows of bent, marginal dorsal eight-shaped pores; anal plates rectangular; tentorial sclerotization present (Stumpf and Lambdin 2006). (Granara de Willink et al. 2023)
General Remarks: Description and illustration of adult female by Russell (1941) and by Stumpf & Lambdin (2006). Test of female, male and nymphs described and illustrated by Russell (1941).

Illustrations

Citations

Cocker1902i: description, distribution, host, taxonomy, 89
Fernal1903b: 54
GranarGoSt2023: diagnosis, distribution, host, key, 9
Lepage1938: catalog, 338
Morris1919: description, distribution, host, illustration, taxonomy, 66-67
Russel1941: description, distribution, host, illustration, taxonomy, 223-225,315
StumpfLa2006: description, distribution, host, illustration, taxonomy, 80-83
Willia2017a: catalog, list of species, 205