Valid Names Results

Kuwanaspis neolinearis (Takahashi, 1930) (Diaspididae: Kuwanaspis)

Nomenclatural History

• Tsukushiaspis neolinearis Takahashi 1930: 21-22. Type data: TAIWAN: Taihoku, on Bambusa sp., 02/10/1929, by R. Takahashi. Syntypes, female, Type depository: Taichung: Entomology Collection, Taiwan Agricultural Research Institute, Wu-feng, Taichung, Taiwan; accepted valid name Illustr.
• Kuwanaspis neolinearis (Takahashi, 1930); Takahashi 1942: 65. change of combination
• Chuaspis neolinearis (Takahashi, 1930); Tao & Wong 1982: 123. change of combination Notes: Takagi (1999)synonymized the genus Chuaspis Tao & Wong with Kuwanaspis MacGillivray creating the combination Kuwanaspis neolinearis.

Common Names

Ecological Associates

Hosts:

Families: 1 | Genera: 1

Foes:

Families: 1 | Genera: 1

Geographic Distribution

Keys

• Hu1982: pp.213 ( ) [Key to species of Kuwanaspis]

Remarks

• Structure: Adult female scale very long, narrow, straight or somewhat curved, convex on the dorsum, with no dorsal ridge, about 1.8-2.0 mm long. The 1st larval skin almost white, pale brownish on the middle area, scarcely extending beyond the anterior extremity of the 2nd larval skin. 2nd skin is pale whitish brown, broadest about the middle, rounded on both ends, somewhat curved, about 4 times as long as wide, much shorter than the excretion. White excretion occupying most of the scale, not extending out of the lateral margins of the 2nd larval skin, with 2 or 3 slight concavities on the side. Adult female body elongate, about 6.5-7.0 times as long as wide, almost parallel on the sides, rounded on the front.
• General Remarks: Detailed redescription and illustration by Takagi (1970).

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