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Aulacaspis jeraiana Takagi, 2014 (Diaspididae: Aulacaspis)

Aulacaspis jeraiana Takagi 2014: 110-111. Type data: MALAYSIA: Malay Peninsua, alt. ca 500m. on Litsea grandis, 11/8/1991, by S. Takagi. Unknown type status, 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 jeraiana is similar to A. kedahana and A. cinnamomorum in that the median trullae are pointed at the apex, where the mesal margin meets the lateral to form an angle, in the lateral trullae with the lobules narrowed in various degrees (often much narrowed in A. cinnamomorum) and in the dorsal macroducts remarkably reduced in occurrence and number. It is different in that it is of the witis-type whereas the other two species are of the rosae-type. (Takagi, 2014)
Structure: Body of fully grown adult female robust, of the vitis-type in shape; body broadest across mesothorax, then abruptly narrowing on head, gradually narrowing caudad on postsoma. Median trullae sunken into apex of pygidium, large, divergent, united basally by a distinct zygotic, broadly rounded, apically meeting lateral margin, with which it makes a sharp angle. Second and thir trullae with lobules (especially inner ones) somewhat narrowed. (Takagi, 2014)
Biology: Female and male tests occurring on the lower surface of the leaves, remale tests also on the upper surface; female tests small and thin; male tests tricarinate, standing oblique to the leaf surface, with the ventral portion well formed (the second instar male having many small ducts on the ventral surface as well as on the dorsal.) (Takagi, 2014)
General Remarks: Detailed description and illustration in Takagi, 2014.

Takagi2014: description, distribution, host, illustration, structure, taxonomy, 110-111, 150-151