Valid Names Results

Diaulacaspis xerospermi Takagi, Pong & Ghee, 1989 (Diaspididae: Diaulacaspis)

Nomenclatural History

• Diaulacaspis xerospermi Takagi, Pong & Ghee 1989: 160-166. Type data: MALAYSIA: Semenanjung, Negeri Sembilan, Jeram Toi, on Xerospermum noronhianum, 29/09/1986. Holotype, female, Type depository: Kepong: Forest Research Institute of Malaysia, Selandgor, Malaysia; accepted valid name Illustr.

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Families: 1 | Genera: 1

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Remarks

• Structure: Female scale circular, flat, yellowish gray, with exuvial casts central or subcentral. Male test a white flossy mass. Adult female deeply constricted in metathorax, divided thereby into a rounded prosoma and a rounded abdomen. Second instar female broadly obovoid. Second instar male obovoid with segmentation indistinct (Takagi et al., 1989).
• General Remarks: Best description and illustration by Takagi et al. (1989).

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