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Aulacaspis constricta Takagi & De Faveri, 2011 (Diaspididae: Aulacaspis)

Aulacaspis constricta Takagi & De Faveri 2011: 16-23. Type data: AUSTRALIA: Western Australia, Cambridge Gulf, Wyndham, on undetermined mangrove, 2/22/2010, by C. Palmer. Holotype, female, by original designation Type depository: Canberra: Australian National Insect Collection, CSIRO Entomology, Australia; accepted valid name Illustr.

Families: 1 | Genera: 1

Countries: 1

Systematics: This species is similar to Aulacaspis mischocarpi (= Phenacaspis mischocarpi) and Aulacaspis bambusae (=Diaspis bambusae) in having a very large prosoma and a constricted body. A. constricts and A. mischocarpi are similar also in the arrangement of dorsal macroducts on the abdominal segments and in having pointed pore prominences on the pygidial margin. However, in A mischocarpi the prosoma grows less prominent and is obscurely hexagonal, the metathorax is less recessed, the second abdominal segment always lacks submarginal macroducts, and the median trullae are elongate. (Takagi & DeFaveri, 2011) One of the remarkable characters is that it has elongate lateral setae on the prosoma and the prepygidial segments of the postsoma. (Takagi, 2013)
Structure: At full growth, body robust, deeply constricted in metathorax; derm becoming sclerotic on prosoma and metathorax. Prosoma quite large, broadly founded on frontal margin, which is usually slightly concave medially, broadest somewhat cephalad of middle at the level of the prosomatic tubercles, then gradually narrowing caudad; prosomatic tubercles broadly rounded. (Takagi & DeFaveri, 2011)
Biology: The female exuvial casts are variable in colour, some of them darkened, but others remaining pale. (Takagi & DeFaveri, 2011)
General Remarks: Detailed description and illustration in Takagi & De Faveri, 2011.

TakagiDe2011: description, distribution, host, illustration, structure, taxonomy, 16-23