Valid Names Results

Neoquernaspis beshearae Liu & Tippins, 1988 (Diaspididae: Neoquernaspis)

Nomenclatural History

• Neoquernaspis beshearae Liu & Tippins 1988: 40-42. Type data: NEPAL: Mechi, Mahabharat Range, Sukhe Pokhri, on Lithocarpus pachyphylla, 11/11/1983, by S. Takagi. Holotype, female, Type depository: Washington: United States National Entomological Collection, U.S. National Museum of Natural History, District of Columbia, USA; accepted valid name Illustr.

Common Names

Ecological Associates

Hosts:

Families: 1 | Genera: 1

Geographic Distribution

Keys

• Zeng2001: pp.532 ( Adult (F) ) [Key to the Chinese species of Neoquernaspis]
• LiuTi1988: pp.42 ( ) [Key to species of Neoquernaspis]

Remarks

• Systematics: This species can be distinguished from others of its genus by the more associated trilocular pores anteriolateral of both anterior and posterior spiracles than in other species; more perivulvar pores, macroducts, gland spines and gland tubercles than in other species and the antennae with 3 thick finger-like processes (Liu & Tippins, 1988).
• Structure: Female scale large, oystershell shaped; exuviae terminal, pale brown to yellowish brown; 1st instar and 2nd instar combined about one-half to one-third total body length; secretion white or grayish white; strongly convex dorsally in the middle of test, behind exuviae. Adult female elongate, spindle-shaped; posterior widened and slightly lobed laterally (Liu & Tippins, 1988).
• Biology: Neoquernaspis beshearae was collected at an altitude of 1300 m (Liu & Tippins, 1988).
• General Remarks: Detailed description and illustration by Liu & Tippins (1988) and Takagi et al. (1989).

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