Valid Names Results

Albastaspis brevis Wei, Normark, & Normark, 2026 (Diaspididae: Albastaspis)

Nomenclatural History

• Pseudaulacaspis ud2114 Normark, et al. 2019. unavailable name that is placed
• Albastaspis brevis Wei, Normark, & Normark 2026: 44. Type data: AUSTRALIA: New South Wales, Gap Gully, on Casuarina cunninghamiana, 6/2/2007, J.C. Andersen & B.B. Normark. Holotype, female, by present designation Type depository: Canberra: Australian National Insect Collection, CSIRO Entomology, Australia; accepted valid name Notes: Paratypes: AUSTRALIA: New South Wales, on Casuarina sp. (UMEC) and Casuarina equisetifolia (USNM), 6/2/2007, J.C. Andersen & B.B. Normark Illustr.

Common Names

Ecological Associates

Hosts:

Families: 1 | Genera: 1

Geographic Distribution

Keys

• WeiNoNo2026: pp.30-36 ( Adult (F) ) [species of Fioriniina in Australia]

Remarks

• Systematics: ZooBank: https://zoobank.org/EE8AE9FE-3D45-4F8F-BE3D-E673E43A8D9C GenBank accession numbers KY219541 (holotype D2114A), KY219547 (paratype 2120A), KY219548 (paratype D2121A); elongation factor 1-alpha (EF-1α), KY221547 (holotype D2114A); cytochrome oxidase I and II (COI–II), KY220944 (holotype D2114A); and the small ribosomal subunit (16S) of the primary endosymbiont (Uzinura diaspidicola), KY220397 (holotype D2114A), KY220401 (paratype 2120A), KY220402 (paratype D2121A).

  Albastaspis brevis is a highly distinctive species of Albastaspis due to its turbinate body shape, frequent presence of a marginal macroduct between L1, and presence of pores by the posterior spiracles. The only other species of Albastaspis with marginal macroducts between L1 is A. casuarinae; A. brevis can be distinguished from A. casuarinae by turbinate body shape (body elongate-oval in A. casuarinae) and by the presence of a seta on the antenna, pores by the posterior spiracle, and dorsal submedial macroducts on abdominal segments I and II (all absent in A. casuarinae). (Wei, Normark & Normark, 2026)

• Structure: Adult female not pupillarial. Scale cover white, elongate, with highly convex humped shape, and with orange exuviae at anterior end. Slide-mounted adult female (n = 3) 750–1100 μm long (holotype 750 μm), 530–840 μm wide (holotype 530 μm), broadest at metathorax or abdominal segment I. Body outline turbinate, body membranous except for pygidium. (Wei, Normark & Normark, 2026)
• General Remarks: Detailed description and illustration in Wei, et al., 2026.

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