Valid Names Results

Aulacaspis takarai Takagi, 1965 (Diaspididae: Aulacaspis)

Nomenclatural History

• Aulacaspis takarai Takagi 1965: 40. Type data: JAPAN: Miyako Island, on sugar cane, 20/12/1961, by T. Isobe; Okinawa, on bamboo, 04/01/1962, by T. Miyara. Syntypes, female, Type depository: Sapporo: Entomological Institute, Faculty of Agriculture, Hokkaido University, Japan; accepted valid name Illustr.

Common Names

Ecological Associates

Hosts:

Families: 1 | Genera: 13

Foes:

Families: 1 | Genera: 1

Geographic Distribution

Keys

• WilliaWa1993: pp.650 ( ) [Key to species of Aulacaspis on Saccharum spp]

Remarks

• Systematics: Aulacaspis takarai is close to A. madiunensis, but may be distinguished by having paired gland spines between the median and 2nd lobes and also between the 2nd and 3rd lobes and by having a submarginal dorsal macroduct just in front of the marginal macroducts of the 6th abdominal segment (Takagi, 1965. The prosoma in the fully grown adult females of A. takarai is somewhat more swollen and slightly more roundish than in A. madiunensis and the prepygidial postsoma is gradually narrower posteriorly. The marginal pore prominences on the sixth and seventh abdominal segments in A. takarai tend to be less produced than in A. madiunensis.The occurrence of one submarginal macroduct, at times of two, on each side of the sixth abdominal segment in front of the marginal macroducts is a good diagnostic character. (Takagi, 2015)
• General Remarks: Detailed description and illustration by Takagi (1965).

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