Valid Names Results

Poliaspoides bambusae Ülgentürk & Pellizzari, 2013 (Diaspididae: Poliaspoides)

Nomenclatural History

• Poliaspoides bambusae Ülgentürk & Pellizzari 2013: 493-499. Type data: TURKEY: Ankara, on Bambusa siamensis, 2/15/2011, by Ülgentürk. Holotype, female, Type depository: Ankara: Plant Protection Department, Faculty of Agriculture, Ankara University, Turkey; Shaanxi: Entomological Museum of the Northwest Sci-Tech University of Agriculture and Forestry, Baishui, Shaanxi, China; accepted valid name Notes: Bambusa siamensis imported and growing indoors at a shopping center in Ankara Illustr.

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Ecological Associates

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Families: 1 | Genera: 2

Geographic Distribution

Keys

• UlgentPe2013: pp.496 ( ) [Key to Poliaspoides living on bamboos (Poaceae) based on adult females]

Remarks

• Systematics: Poliaspoides bambusae differs from P. formosana (characters of P. formosana in brackets) in the absence of perivulvar pores (present in 5 groups), presence of dorsal ducts of two sizes (one size only), and in having only 1-4 trilocular pores associated with each anterior spiracle (4-10), The adult female of P. bambusae differs from that of P. simplex (characters of P. simplex in brackets) in the absence of perivulvar pores (present in 5-7 groups) and the absence of spiracular pores near each posterior spiracle but with a group of microducts in this position (1-3 spiracular pores around posterior spiracles (Green, 1899)). (Ülgentürk & Pellizzari, 2013) The first-instar nymph of Poliaspoides bambusae is similar to that of P. formosana described by Ben-Dov & Takagi (1974) and by Takagi (1995) but differs in having 6 processes, each with 2–6 cusps, along each margin of the abdomen (P. formosana has 8 tricuspidal processes). Moreover, P. bambusae lacks the pair of sharp sclerotised processes between the two anal lobe setae noted on P. formosana. The first-instar nymph of P. leptocarpi, described by Henderson (2011), clearly differs from P. bambusae and P. formosana (characters of P. bambusae and P. formosana in brackets) in having: 6 segmented antennae (5 segmented), no abdominal processes (present) and no pairs of enlarged ducts on head (present). (Ülgentürk & Pellizzari, 2013)
• Structure: Body elongate, inversely pyriform, 1.2 (0.95-1.45) mm long and 0.67 (0.56-0.77) mm wide at mesothorax. Derm sclerotised on margins of thorax and abdomen, medial part membranous. (Ülgentürk & Pellizzari, 2013) First instar nymph: oval, with lateral margin almost parallel, 240 µm long and 132 µm wide. (Ülgentürk & Pellizzari, 2013)
• Biology: The absence of perivulvar pores in the adult female is usually associated with viviparity or ovoviviparty, and this is confirmed by the presence of first-instar nymphs within the body of P. bambusae. (Ülgentürk & Pellizzari, 2013)
• General Remarks: Detailed description and illustration in Ülgentürk & Pellizzari, 2013.

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