Valid Names Results

Aspidiella kijimuna Tanaka & Kamitani, 2021 (Diaspididae: Aspidiella)

Nomenclatural History

• Aspidiella kijimuna Tanaka & Kamitani 2021: 571. Type data: JAPAN: Okinawa Prefecture, Okinawa Is., Nishihara-cho, Koch, on Miscanthus sinensis, 11/14/2020, by. H. Tanaka. Holotype, female, by original designation Type depository: Fukuoka: Entomological Laboratory, Faculty of Agriculture, Kyushu University, Fukuoka, Japan; Matsuyama: Ehime University Museum, Matsuyama, Japan; accepted valid name Notes: Paratypes: same data as for holotype, 9 adult females mounted singly Illustr.

Common Names

Ecological Associates

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Families: 1 | Genera: 1

Geographic Distribution

Keys

• TanakaKa2021: pp.573 ( Adult (F) ) [Aspidiella in Japan]

Remarks

• Systematics: Aspidiella kijimuna sp. nov. differs from most of its congeners and the generic diagnosis proposed by Williams & Watson (1988) by having a relatively well-developed and recognizable third lobe. However, it shares several other morphological character states, especially the possession of several submarginal macroducts on both the dorsal and ventral surfaces of the pygidium and the lack of perivulvar pores, with A. phragmitis (Takahashi, 1931). A relatively well-developed third lobe is also found in A. agalegae Mamet, 1974, which differs from A. kijimuna by having perivulvar pores. the new species differs from A. phragmitis as follows (character states of A. phragmitis in brackets): (i) third lobes relatively well developed and recognizable (reduced to a small projection); and (ii) median lobes with rounded apices (with truncate apices). Aspidiella kijimuna is also similar to Chortinaspis tianmuensis Wei & Feng, 2011 in having 3 pairs of lobes and in lacking perivulvar pores. However, the new species differs from C. tianmuensis as follows (character states of C. tianmuensis in brackets): ventral macroducts present on abdominal segments I–VI (absent); and (ii) ventral marginal to submarginal long microducts on the thoracic segments and head (absent). (Tanaka & Kamitani, 2021)
• Structure: Live adult female settled on inside of leaf sheath of host plant; not pupillarial; secretes a circular, flat, yellowish brown scale cover. Slide-mounted adult female sub-oval to slightly turbinate, 1560 (820–1760) μm long, 1140 (700–1430) μm wide; broadest at metathorax or abdominal segment I. Derm membranous, except for pygidium, margin of most abdominal segments slightly crenulate. Antennae simple, each with 1 thick, flagellate seta
• General Remarks: Detailed description, illustration and photograph in Tanaka & Kamitani, 2021

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