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Aulacaspis machilicola (Takahashi, 1935) (Diaspididae: Aulacaspis)

Diaspis machilicola Takahashi 1935: 13-15. Type data: TAIWAN: Taito, Chipponsan, on Machilus sp., 23/03/1934, by R. Takahashi. Syntypes, female, Type depository: Taichung: Entomology Collection, Taiwan Agricultural Research Institute, Wu-feng, Taichung, Taiwan; accepted valid name Illustr.
Chionaspis machilicola (Takahashi, 1935); Takagi 1970: 34. change of combination
Aulacaspis machilicola (Takahashi, 1935); Takagi 2012a: 63. change of combination

Families: 1 | Genera: 1

Countries: 1

Systematics: Takagi (2012a) Transferred this species to Aulacaspis citing the condition that the abdominal segment ...lacks lateral glands and spines, and the body is "oblong, broadest on the meso- or metathorax, gradually narrowed towards the pygidium."
Structure: Female scale white, rather thick, flattened, not convex, subcircular or irregular in shape, about 3.5 mm long, with many irregular transverse striae on the secretion, the venter closed by a white secretion easily separable from the dorsal secretion. Exuviae consist of some very thin layers easily separable, pale yellow, on margin of scale (Takahashi, 1935).
General Remarks: Best description and illustration by Takahashi (1935).