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Aspidiotus ophiopogonus Kuwana in Kuwana & Muramatsu, 1932 (Diaspididae: Aspidiotus)

Aspidiotus ophiopogonus Kuwana in Kuwana & Muramatsu 1932a: 96. Type data: JAPAN: Oita, on Ophiopogon japonica.. Syntypes, female, Type depository: Ibaraki-ken: Insect Taxonomy Laboratory, National Institute of Agricultural Environmental Sciences, Kannon-dai, Yatabe, Tsukuba-shi, (Kuwana), Japan; accepted valid name Illustr.
Aspidiotus pavlovskii Borchsenius 1955b: 247. Type data: NORTH KOREA: South Hamgen, at Sea of Japan coast, near Tezo, between Hamhin and Pukchen, on Festuca sp.. Syntypes, female, Type depository: St. Petersburg: Zoological Museum, Academy of Science, Russia; junior synonym (discovered by Borchs1966, 266). Illustr.

Families: 4 | Genera: 4

Countries: 3

Structure: Female scale subcircular, grayish dark brown, exuviae nearly central, yellow (Kuwana & Muramatsu, 1932a). Female scale, of the junior synonym Aspidiotus pavlovskii Borchsenius, 1955, elliptical, 1.6 mm long, 0.9 mm wide; flat; light brown; exuviae brown and shiny, placed centrally (Borchsenius, 1955b).
Biology: This is a grass-infesting species, found on the leaves of the hosts.
General Remarks: Description and illustration of adult female by Kuwana & Muramatsu (1932a), Borchsenius (1955b) and by Takagi (1957).