Valid Names Results

Aulacaspis pieridis Takagi, 2017 (Diaspididae: Aulacaspis)

Aulacaspis pieridis Takagi 2017: 92. Type data: NEPAL: Bagmati Zone Langtang Valley, near Ghora Tobela, on Pieris formosa, 9/29/1975. Holotype, female, by original designation Type depository: Sapporo: Entomological Institute, Faculty of Agriculture, Hokkaido University, Japan; accepted valid name Notes: alt. 2750m. Illustr.

Families: 1 | Genera: 1

Countries: 1

Systematics: This species agrees with A. ericacearum in having, usually, a submarginal macroduct on each side of the fifth abdominal segment in the second instar female. In the adult female, it differs from the latter in the body less robust, the prosoma tending to be ovate and the postsoma being not much broadened, in the spiracular disc pores small unusually for a member of the genus, and in the lateral gland spines on the third abdominal segment enlarged also unusually. In consideration of all these characters the view may be adopted that A. pieridis is not particularly closely related to A. ericacearum and that the agreement in the second instar female is attributable to parallelism. (Takagi, 2017)
Structure: Adult female with prosoma swollen, broader than postsoma but not much, tending to be ovate in outline of free margin; prosomatic tubercles indiscernible; metathorax and basal 2 abdominal segments nearly same in width; pygidium slightly roundish along free margin, with a small recess apically; peribuccal scleroses usually not developed. Anterior spiracles each with a group of many disc pores, which are small and make some irregular and narrow blank spaces within the group; posterior spiracles each with a smaller group of disc pores, which also are small and irregularly clustered within the group. Perivulvar disc pores moderately numerous in 5 groups. (Takagi, 2017)
General Remarks: Detailed description and illustration in Takagi, 2017.

Takagi2017: description, diagnosis, distribution, host, illustration, morphology, taxonomy, 92-93, 99-100, 119-120