Valid Names Results

Aulacaspis zunyiensis Wei & Jing, 2016 (Diaspididae: Aulacaspis)

Nomenclatural History

• Aulacaspis zunyiensis Wei & Jing 2016. Type data: CHINA: Guizhou Province, Zunyi city, longitude 106.9122, latitude: 27.7087, on Cycas revoluta Thunb, 7/17/2015, by Weijiufeng and Niu Minmin. Holotype, female, by original designation Type depository: Shanxi: Entomological Institute, Shanxi Agricultural University, Taigu, Shanxi, China; accepted valid name Notes: 11 paratype females. Illustr.

Common Names

Ecological Associates

Hosts:

Families: 1 | Genera: 1

Geographic Distribution

Keys

• JianXi2024: pp.595-597 ( Adult (F) ) [Aulacaspis from China]
• TianXi2022: pp.174-176 ( Adult (F) ) [Aulacaspis species from China]
• WeiJiZh2016: pp.18 ( Adult (F) ) [Aulacaspis from China]

Remarks

• Systematics: This species is very similar to A. maesae (Takagi) in body shape. But differs in having (character-states on A. maesae in brackets): (i) posterior spiracle without trilocular pores (posterior spiracle with trilocular pores); (ii) dorsal macroducts absent from submedial region of abdominal segment VI (present); (iii) dorsal macroducts absent from submedial region of abdominal segment II (present). (Wei, Jing & Zhang, 2016)
• Structure: Adult female cover convex, circular white; exuvia on front end. Body shape varied, mushroom-shaped, fusiform or cuniform; derm membranous except for the margin of pygidium; prosoma swollen or wider than metathorax and abdomen, slightly squared in most species. (Wei, Jing & Zhang, 2016)
• General Remarks: Detailed description and illustration in Wei, Jing & Zhang, 2016.

Illustrations

Citations