Valid Names Results

Aulacaspis bauhiniae Takagi, 2018 (Diaspididae: Aulacaspis)

Aulacaspis bauhiniae Takagi 2018: 50. Type data: MALAYSIA: Borneo, Sabah, Kinabalu National Park, alt. ca.1500m, on Bauhinia sp., 10/7/1988, by S. Takagi. Holotype, female, by original designation Type depository: Kepong: Forest Research Institute of Malaysia, Selandgor, Malaysia; accepted valid name Illustr.

Families: 1 | Genera: 1

Countries: 1

Systematics: Aulacaspis bauhiniae and A. phanerae are apparently closely related to each other. They are different in the numbers of the disc pores and macroducts, in the shape of the median trullae, and in the development of the pore prominences on the fourth and fifth abdominal segments.The pore prominences on the fourth and fifth abdominal segments are produced in the shape of a triangle and sharply pointed apically in A. phanerae, whereas the corresponding processes are low and tubercular in A. bauhiniae.
Structure: Adult female at full growth with prosoma swollen, distinctly but not much broader than postsoma, basal 3 postsomatic segments nearly the same in width, pygidium little roundish marginally. Prosoma nearly half-circular to roughly quadrate; prosomatic tubercles not discernible; peribuccal scleroses not formed. Anterior spiracles each with a small group of disc pores; posterior spiracles each with several disc pores just laterally. Perivulvar disc pores in small groups.(Takagi, 2018)
General Remarks: Detailed description and illustration in Takagi, 2018.

Takagi2018: description, diagnosis, distribution, host, illustration, taxonomy, 50-51, 67, 69