Valid Names Results

Aulacaspis langtangana Takagi, 2017 (Diaspididae: Aulacaspis)

Nomenclatural History

• Aulacaspis langtangana Takagi 2017: 90. Type data: NEPAL: Bagmati Zone, Langtang Valley, near Ghora Tobela, on Rosa sericea, 9/23/1975,. Holotype, female, by original designation Type depository: Sapporo: Entomological Institute, Faculty of Agriculture, Hokkaido University, Japan; accepted valid name Notes: alt. ca.3200m Illustr.

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Families: 1 | Genera: 1

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Remarks

• Systematics: This species is probably closely related to A. altiplagae, another high-altitudinal scale insect, which was described from Nyngchi, Tibetan Plateau. This species is similar to A. altiplagae in the body shape and especially in the prosoma, which is swollen only weakly and rounded, in the marginal gland spines not always single on the fifth to seventh abdominal segments, in the median trullae large and strongly divergent, and in having one or a few submarginal macroducts on each side of the sixth abdominal segment. This species has infrasegmental macroducts occurring submedially and submarginally on the fourth and fifth abdominal segments and distinctly displaced from the segmental rows of macroducts, whereas in the figure of A. altiplagae all the macroducts are arranged along the posterior margins of the segments on which they occur. A. altiplagae has lateral macroducts on the second and third abdominal segments, but this feature is not mentioned in the description, and not shown in the figure, of A. altiplagae. The specimens of A. langtangana have submedian macroducts, which are often replaced with microducts, on the first abdominal segment, whereas the occurrence of such ducts is not mentioned in A. altiplagae. The median trullae are horseshoed basally in A. langtangana, but the figure of A. altiplagae shows no trace of the horseshoe. (Takagi, 2017)
• Structure: Adult female with prosoma swollen, broader than postsoma but not much, roundish along free margin; prosomatic tubercles indiscernible; postsoma robust, metathorax and basal 2 abdominal segments same in width, gently lobed laterally; pygidium broad obdeltoid, with a recess apically; peribuccal scleroses usually slender. Anterior spiracles each with a compact group of disc pores; posterior spiracles each with a smaller group. Perivulvar disc pores moderately numerous in 5 groups. (Takagi, 2017)
• General Remarks: Detailed description and illustration in Takagi, 2017.

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