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Aulacaspis acronychiae Takagi & Martin, 2010 (Diaspididae: Aulacaspis)

Aulacaspis acronychiae Takagi & Martin 2010: 48-49. Type data: CHINA: Hong Kong, New Territories opposite Hong Kong Island, Ma On Shan Country Park, on Acronychia pedunculata, 12/9/2003, by S.K. Lau and H.J. Martin. Holotype, female, by original designation Type depository: London: The Natural History Museum, England, UK; accepted valid name Illustr.

Families: 1 | Genera: 1

Countries: 1

Systematics: This species closwely resemples Aulacaspis guangdongensis, which is found not far from Hong Kong, occurring on the leaves of Aglaia odorata (Meliaceae). It differes as follows: 1) antennae without tubercle [In A. guangdongensis each antenna has a robust tmbercle]; 2) Median trullae separated basally by a nattow but obvious space and dentate (each having four distinct teeth in the holotype) on the oblique mesal margin [Median trullae separated basally by 'a seam', 'extending straight' on the oblique mesal margin which is not dentate nor serate]; 3) Submedian and submarginal dorsal macroducts about twice as many as those in A. guangdongensis. (Takagi & Martin, 2010)
Structure: Adult female: Body robust, cuneiform; prosoma rounded and weakly sclerotic in borad marginal areas on both surfaces, with rudimentary peribuccal scleroses, with a pair of slight prominences representing prosomatic tubercles; postsoma as a whole gradually narrowing posteriorly. Antennae separated from each other by a space narrower than frame of mouth-parts. Pygidial lobes sunken in a small apical recess of pygidium except for their apices, robust, united by a large rounded sclerosis basally. (Takagi & Martin, 2010)
General Remarks: Detailed description and illustration in Takagi & Martin, 2010.

JianXi2024: key, 596
MartinLa2011: catalog, distribution, host, 38
TakagiMa2010: description, distribution, host, illustration, structure, taxonomy, 48-49,55
TianXi2022: distribution, key, 173, 175
WeiJiZh2016: key, 22