A new invasive Lepidosaphes armored scale (Hemiptera: Coccomorpha: Diaspididae) for Florida: first records, natural enemies, and an identification key Author Evans, Erin C. Powell Mark Zenoble Douglass R. Miller Benjamin B. Normark Gregory A. text Insecta Mundi 2024 2024-09-27 2024 73 1 24 journal article 10.5281/zenodo.14662496 1942-1354 14662496 1F9EE396-B0B9-4FF6-BC12-D8477154546B Lepidosaphes chinensis Chamberlin, 1925 ( Fig. 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).