Lepidosaphes chinensis Chamberlin, 1925

Evans, Erin C. Powell Mark Zenoble Douglass R. Miller Benjamin B. Normark Gregory A., 2024, A new invasive Lepidosaphes armored scale (Hemiptera: Coccomorpha: Diaspididae) for Florida: first records, natural enemies, and an identification key, Insecta Mundi 2024 (73), pp. 1-24 : 5

publication ID	https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.14662496
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scientific name	Lepidosaphes chinensis Chamberlin, 1925
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Lepidosaphes chinensis Chamberlin, 1925 View in CoL ( Fig. 4 View Figure 4 )

Chinese mussel scale

Hosts in FSCA. Asparagaceae : Dracaena braunii Engl. (5), Dracaena sanderiana Mast. (17), Dracaena sp. (1); Orchidaceae (1).

Notes. This species is not established in Florida but is frequently intercepted on nursery stock of lucky bamboo ( Dracaena sp. ) ( Stocks 2014). Lepidosaphes chinensis is similar to L. beckii in having cicatrices on the abdomen and a small dorsal duct anterior to L2. They differ (characters of L. beckii are given in parentheses) in having: five pairs of cicatrices (three or four pairs of cicatrices) and one or two lateral spurs (without lateral spurs, rarely with one).