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Aulacaspis nilagirica Takagi, 2012 (Diaspididae: Aulacaspis)

Aulacaspis nilagirica Takagi 2012a: 32. Type data: INDIA: Tamil Nadu, Nilgiri Hills, Doddabetta (alt. ca. 2600m.), 11/24/1978, on Litsea sp., by S. Takagi. Holotype, immature, by original designation Type depository: Sapporo: Entomological Institute, Faculty of Agriculture, Hokkaido University, Japan; accepted valid name Illustr.

Families: 1 | Genera: 1

Countries: 1

Systematics: Aulacaspis nilagirica, A. anaimala and A. malabarica are similar and distinguished by rather trifling differences. A. nilagirica differs from A. anaimala and agrees with A. malabarica in the disc pores associated with the posterior spiracles situated laterally, and differs from the latter two species in the median trullae separated basally from each other by a good space. (Takagi, 2012a)
Structure: Immature female body nearly oblong in outline. Posterior spiracles with a small cluster of disc pores laterally. Submedian macroducts on abdominal segments III-VI; submarginal macroducts on III-V. The specimens living on twigs are different from the ones living on the leaves in the spiracular and perivulvar disc pores and the number of dorsal macroducts. However, it agrees in the characters of the pygidial margin, especially of the median trullae, which are robust and separated from each other by a good space basally. (Takagi, 2012a).
General Remarks: Detailed description and illustration in Takagi, 2012a.

JoshiMoMe2023: distribution, host, key, 241
Takagi2012a: biology, description, diagnosis, distribution, host, illustration, taxonomy, 32-33, 86