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Pseudaulacaspis ernesti Miller, Gimpel & Williams, 2003 (Diaspididae: Pseudaulacaspis)

Diaspis grandilobis Green 1922a: 1015. Type data: SRI LANKA: Peradeniya, on Diospyros thwaitesii. Syntypes, female, Type depository: London: The Natural History Museum, England, UK; homonym through subsequent combination (discovered by MillerBeGi2002, ?????????). Notes: In 1985 Takagi moved Mytilaspis grandilobis Maskell into Pseudaulacaspis creating a secondary senior homonym of Pseudaulacaspis grandilobis Green.
Pseudaulacaspis grandilobis Lindinger 1935: 130. change of combination resulting in homonymy (discovered by MillerGiWi2003, 941).
Chionaspis grandilobis (Green, 1922); Takagi 1970: 52. change of combination Notes: It seems that Takagi intended to place grandilobis Green in Pseudaulacaspis. His reference to Chionaspis grandilobis Green appears to be in error, but must still be considered a new combination.
Pseudaulacaspis grandilobis Takagi 1975: 23. change of combination resulting in homonymy
Pseudaulacaspis ernesti Miller, Gimpel & Williams 2003: 941. replacement name Replacement name for Pseudaulacaspis grandilobis (Green 1922a)

Families: 1 | Genera: 1

Countries: 1

Systematics: Pseudaulacaspis ernesti became a junior secondary synonym of P. grandilobis Maskell when it was moved into Pseudaulacaspis by Takagi 1985. Pseudaulacaspis ernesti is similar to P. takahashii. P. takahashii differs from P. ernesti by having a less squat body, by lacking numerous large dorsal ducts on the median areas of the head and thorax and by lacking numerous pores around the 2nd spiracle (Takagi, 1975).
Structure: Female scale creamy white, exuviae reddish, 2.0 mm wide. Adult female 1.25-1.75 mm long, with parastigmatic pores at each spiracle, but more crowded at the anterior pair. Mesal lobes of pygidium very large and dense, bases confluent, free margins prominent, broadly rounded, minutely but obscurely crenulate. Lateral lobes duplex, outer lobule of 2nd pair represented by a broad cristate marginal prominence (Green, 1922a).
General Remarks: Detailed description and illustration by Green (1922a). Redescription and illustrations by Milller, et al., 2003