Valid Names Results

Drosicha turkestanica Archangelskaya, 1931 (Monophlebidae: Drosicha)

Nomenclatural History

• Drosicha turkestanica Archangelskaya 1931: 69. Type data: UZBEKISTAN (Fergana, Tashkent, Samarkand and Termez), TURKMENISTAN (Bayram-Ali and Merv), and TADZHKISTAN (Isfara): on 21 host plants.. Syntypes, female, Type depository: St. Petersburg: Zoological Museum, Academy of Science, Russia; accepted valid name Illustr.
• Drosicha media Borchsenius 1949b: 339. Type data: KAZAKHSTAN: Kzyl-orda, on Salix; collected F. Lukyanovitz, 30.iv.1938.. Syntypes, female, Type depository: St. Petersburg: Zoological Museum, Academy of Science, Russia; junior synonym (discovered by Jashen1994c, 29).
• Drosicha turkestanicae Archangelskaya, 1931; Tao 1999: 2. misspelling of species epithet

Common Names

Ecological Associates

Hosts:

Families: 16 | Genera: 23

Foes:

Families: 2 | Genera: 2

Geographic Distribution

Keys

• TangHa1995: pp.128-130, 611-613 ( Adult (F) Adult (M) ) [Asia, China]
• Jashen1994c: pp.38 ( Adult (F) ) [Palearctic]
• Jashen1994c: pp.39 ( Adult (M) ) [Palearctic]
• Borchs1950b: pp.43 ( Adult (F) ) [USSR]

Remarks

• Structure: General appearance of the adult male illustrated by Borchsenius (1950b). Live adult female red to red-brown, 12‒15 mm long. Body of slide-mounted adult female oval, with flagellate setae densely crowded on both surfaces; dorsal setae short, those on venter of abdomen each 2 or 3 times longer than a dorsal seta. Antennae each with 8 or 9 segments, third and apical segments longest. Legs well developed, with setae not numerous; hind tibia and tarsus each with spines on inner margins. Margin of body covered with 1 or 2 rows of long setae and a dense band of short setae. Abdominal spiracles numbering 7 pairs. Cicatrices numbering 3, middle cicatrice largest. Anal opening simple, surrounded by setae and pores. Vulva surrounded by multilocular disc-pores, each with 2 central loculi and about 8‒14 peripheral loculi. Multilocular disc-pores each with 1 central and 4‒14 peripheral loculi, pores with 8‒14 peripheral loculi present around anal opening and vulva; multilocular disc-pores each with 2 or 3 central and 8‒14 peripheral loculi, rarely present on end of abdomen. (Moghaddam & Watson, 2024)
• Biology: A monovoltine species (Jashenko, 1994c, 1999).
• General Remarks: Good description and illustration of the adult female, adult male and nymphs given by Jashenko (1994c).

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