Valid Names Results
Graminorthezia pseudograminis (Morrison, 1925) (Ortheziidae: Graminorthezia)Nomenclatural History
- Orthezia pseudograminis Morrison 1925: 135. Type data: UNITED STATES: Colorado, Sterling, on Sporobolus cryptandrus, ?/07/1908, by E.O.G. Kelly. Holotype, female, Type depository: Washington: United States National Entomological Collection, U.S. National Museum of Natural History, District of Columbia, USA; accepted valid name Notes: There are 9 paratype slides in the USNM. Illustr.
- Graminorthezia pseudograminis (Morrison, 1925); Kozár 2004: 288. change of combination
Common Names
Ecological Associates
Hosts:
Families: 1 | Genera: 3
- Poaceae
- Deschampsia cespitosa | Morris1925
- Distichlis spicata | Morris1925
- Sporobolus cryptandrus | Morris1925
Geographic Distribution
Countries: 1
- United States
- California | Kozar2004
- Colorado | Morris1925
- New Mexico | Morris1925
- Texas | Morris1925
Keys
- Kozar2004: pp.272-273 ( Adult (F) ) [Key to the species of Graminorthezia]
- Morris1952: pp.8 ( Adult (F) ) [Species in the Graminis group of Orthezia]
- Morris1925: pp.109 ( Adult (F) ) [Species of the Subgenus Orthezia]
Remarks
- Structure: Adult female has dorsal bare strip on each half of the body normally extending only over about the anterior half of the body length, the remainder of this area covered with secretion. Ovisac averaging not more than two thirds of the maximum length of that of O. graminis (Morrison, 1925).
- General Remarks: Original description and illustration by Morrison (1925).
Illustrations
Citations
- Kozar2004: catalog, description, distribution, host, illustration, taxonomy, 288
- Miller2005: distribution, 493
- Morris1925: description, distribution, host, illustration, taxonomy, 135-136
- Morris1952: taxonomy, 8
- PooleGe1997: distribution, 367
- Willia2017a: catalog, list of species, 244
