A New Species of Thysanaspis Ferris (Hemiptera: Diaspididae: Leucaspidini) from Florida Mangroves

Benjamin B. Normark; Akiko Okusu; Douglass R. Miller

doi:10.4289/0013-8797.121.4.681

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Benjamin B. Normark,¹ Akiko Okusu,¹ Douglass R. Miller²

¹(BBN and AO) Department of Biology and Graduate Program in Organismic and Evolutionary Biology, University of Massachusetts, Amherst, MA 01003, USA (e-mail: bnormark@umass.edu, aokusu@umass.edu);
²(DRM) Florida State Collection of Arthropods, Division of Plant Industry, 1911 S.W. 34th Street, Gainesville, FL 32614, USA, and Systematic Entomology Laboratory, Agricultural Research Service, United States Department of Agriculture, 10300 Baltimore

Abstract

A new species of armored scale insect, Thysanaspis dennorum Normark and Okusu, is described from mangroves (Avicennia germinans L.) in Florida. A previous Bayesian analysis of 4 loci found that individuals from the type series of this species were closely related to the Japanese species Thysanaspis litseae Takagi, and morphologically the new species fits in the genus Thysanaspis Ferris. This is biogeographically surprising; all other members of the tribe Leucaspidini are native to the Old World and all other members of the genus Thysanaspis are native to East Asia.

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Benjamin B. Normark, Akiko Okusu, and Douglass R. Miller "A New Species of Thysanaspis Ferris (Hemiptera: Diaspididae: Leucaspidini) from Florida Mangroves," Proceedings of the Entomological Society of Washington 121(4), 681-692, (23 November 2019). https://doi.org/10.4289/0013-8797.121.4.681

Published: 23 November 2019

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