Valid Names Results

Lepidosaphes piniroxburghii Takagi, 1975 (Diaspididae: Lepidosaphes)

Lepidosaphes piniroxburghii Takagi 1975: 13-18. Type data: NEPAL: Larjung, on Pinus roxburghii, 07/05/1968, by S. Takagi. Holotype, female, Type depository: Sapporo: Entomological Institute, Faculty of Agriculture, Hokkaido University, Japan; accepted valid name Illustr.

Families: 1 | Genera: 1

Countries: 1

MillerWiDa2006: pp.37 ( Adult (F) ) [Key to conifer infesting species of Lepidosaphes]

Systematics: Lepidosaphes piniroxburghii is close to L. pseudotsugae. The adult females exhibit a common structural pattern readily perceptible as a combined effect of their agreements in body shape, multisetose antennae, ocular spines, size and arrangement of macroducts and pygidial lobes (Takagi, 1975).
Structure: Body of adult female narrow, 2.4 times as long as wide, fusiform, with distinct constriction between the meso- and metathorax, and with the free postsomatic segments moderately lobed. Derm membranous except for a broad median dorsal area and other small areas of pygidium (Takagi, 1975).
Biology: L. piniroxburghii was collected at an altitude of 2550 m (Takagi, 1975).
General Remarks: Detailed description and illustration by Takagi (1975). Table of taxanomic characters distinguishing conifer infesting species in Miller, Williams & Davidson (2006).