Valid Names Results

Pinnaspis chamaecyparidis Takagi, 1961 (Diaspididae: Pinnaspis)

Nomenclatural History

• Pinnaspis chamaecyparidis Takagi 1961a: 72-73. Type data: JAPAN: Honshu, Toyama-ken, Namerikawa, on Chamaecyparis obtusa, 08/01/1955 & 16/04/1956. Syntypes, female, Type depository: Sapporo: Entomological Institute, Faculty of Agriculture, Hokkaido University, Japan; accepted valid name Illustr.

Common Names

Ecological Associates

Hosts:

Families: 1 | Genera: 3

Geographic Distribution

Keys

• Suh2014: pp.6 ( Adult (F) ) [Key to species of Pinnaspis from Korea]
• Takagi1961a: pp.75 ( Adult (F) ) [Key to species of Pinnaspis of Japan]

Remarks

• Systematics: Pinnaspis chamaecyparidis is similar to P. juniperi from which it differs mainly by the second lobes which are well developed, with the inner lobule slightly expanded apically (Takagi, 1961a).
• Structure: Female scale elongate, moderately convex dorsally, white. Male scale tricarinate. Adult female fusiform, 0.73 mm long and 0.32 mm wide; free segments each slightly convex laterally (Takagi, 1961a). Adult female cover narrowly to broadly oyster-shell shaped, light to dark brown; shed skins margin, yellow brown to brown. Male cover smaller, felted, white, elongate, with slight median carina; shed skin yellowish. (Suh, 2014)
• Biology: This species has two generations per year and hibernates as an adult female in Japan (Kawai 1980).
• General Remarks: Best description and illustration by Takagi (1961a). Photographs in Suh, 2014.

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