Valid Names Results

Aulacaspis ericacearum Takagi, 1961 (Diaspididae: Aulacaspis)

Nomenclatural History

• Aulacaspis ericacearum Takagi 1961a: 79. Type data: JAPAN: Hokkaido, Aizan-Kei, on Leucothoe grayana, Vaccinium axillare var. coriaceum, V. smalli, on 25/07/1957. Unknown type status, unknown, accepted valid name Illustr.

Common Names

Ecological Associates

Hosts:

Families: 1 | Genera: 2

Geographic Distribution

Keys

• JianXi2024: pp.595-597 ( Adult (F) ) [Aulacaspis from China]
• TianXi2022: pp.174-176 ( Adult (F) ) [Aulacaspis species from China]
• WeiJiZh2016: pp.18-22 ( Adult (F) ) [Aulacaspis from China]
• Danzig1993: pp.345 ( Adult (F) ) [Key to species of Aulacaspis]
• Danzig1988: pp.724 ( Adult (F) ) [Key to species of Aulacaspis]
• Danzig1986: pp.381 ( Adult (F) ) [Key to species of Aulacaspis]
• Danzig1980b: pp.322 ( Adult (F) ) [Key to species of Aulacaspis]
• Paik1978: pp.303 ( Adult (F) ) [Key to species of Aulacaspis]
• Takagi1961a: pp.88 ( Adult (F) ) [Key to species of Aulacaspis]

Remarks

• Systematics: Aulacaspis ericacearum is close to A. rosae. In adult females, the second abdominal segment of A. rosae is more or less strongly produced laterally and wider than either of the preceding 2 segments, while in A. ericacearum it is weakly produced and almost as wide as the 1st abdominal segment or the metathorax. In the second stage, A. ericacearum is characterized by the fact that there is on either side of the body a submarginal macroduct in the region of the 5th abdominal segment, whereas in the latter the 2nd stage female has merely 4 or 5 marginal macroducts on each side of the body, lacking submarginal ones (Takagi, 1961a).
• Structure: Adult female body red (Danzig, 1986a).
• Biology: This species was collected at an altitude of 1000m (Takagi, 1961a). Females hibernate. Emergence of first stage nymphs of first generation seen in early June, first molting in late June. Imago seen in mid-July. Egg laying is in early August; first stage nymphs of second generation emerge in late August; their molting into imago occurs in late September (Danzig, 1986a).
• General Remarks: Detailed description and illustration by Takagi (1961a). So far as recorded, A. ericacearum occurs in Hokkaidô and neighbouring islands, inhabiting mountainous environments in Hokkaidô and northern Honsyû, and is associated with some plants of the family Ericaceae. China was added to the distribution range of this species (Miller and Gimple, 2009), but Takagi (2017) failed to find any reliable record of the species from China.

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