Valid Names Results

Aulacaspis ligulata Takagi, 1988 (Diaspididae: Aulacaspis)

Nomenclatural History

• Aulacaspis ligulata Takagi 1988: 55-63. Type data: NEPAL: Godavari, Phulchoki, near Kathmandu, on Acer oblongum, 19/08/1975. Holotype, female, by original designation Type depository: Sapporo: Entomological Institute, Faculty of Agriculture, Hokkaido University, Japan; accepted valid name Illustr.

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Ecological Associates

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Families: 1 | Genera: 1

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Remarks

• Systematics: This species is uniquely characterized by the prosomatic outgrowth and by the median dorsal microducts. Aulacaspis ligulata can be told from A. greeni by the arrangement of the dorsal macroducts (Takagi, 1988).
• Structure: Female tests white and nearly round or elliptical, with exuvial casts central; thick when occurring on the twigs. Male tests occurring on the undersurface of leaves, white, elongate and tricarinate (Takagi, 1988).
• Biology: This species was collected at altitudes of 1400, 1700, 1900 meters. This species also has different pygidial lobes and other features depending on whether insect is on leaf or bark of host. Leaf and bark dimorphism is sometimes so remarkable that the ecophenotypic forms were once classified in different species or even different genera (Takagi, 1988).
• General Remarks: Best description and illustration by Takagi (1988).

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