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Diaspis myristicae (Rutherford, 1914) (Diaspididae: Diaspis)

Aulacaspis myristicae Rutherford 1914: 260. Type data: SRI LANKA: Peradeniya, on Myristica laurifolia, 15/07/1913. Syntypes, female, Type depository: Paradeniya: Horticultural Crop Research and Development Institute, Sri Lanka; accepted valid name
Diaspis myristicae (Rutherford, 1914); Borchsenius 1966: 172. change of combination

Families: 1 | Genera: 1

Countries: 1

MacGil1921: pp.318 ( ) [Key to species of Aulacaspis] Key as: Aulacaspis myristicae

Systematics: Diaspis myristicae resembles D. fagraeae (=Aulacaspis fragraeae), but the plates in the 4th space are more numerous, the circumgenital pores are more numerous, D. fagraeae (=Aulacaspis fragraeae) having (8-10)(15-18)(20-30), and the median lobes are of a different shape. As compared to D. barberi (=Pseudaulacaspis barberi), the median lobes are not expanded distally on both sides, but only laterally, they are not slightly incised, and the circumgenital pores and the plates are more numerous, D. barberi having pores as (6-9)(18-23)(19-23) (Rutherford, 1914).
Structure: Female scale coarse, white or brown, oval and enclosing the second exuviae which is reddish-brown. Adult female pear shaped (Rutherford, 1914).
General Remarks: Best description by Rutherford (1914).