Valid Names Results

Pseudaulacaspis eucalypticola Tang, 1986 (Diaspididae: Pseudaulacaspis)

Nomenclatural History

• Pseudaulacaspis eucalypticola Tang 1986: 164. Type data: CHINA: Sichuan Province, Mount Emei, on Eucalyptus rostrata. Syntypes, female, Type depository: Shanxi: Entomological Institute, Shanxi Agricultural University, Taigu, Shanxi, China; accepted valid name Illustr.

Common Names

Ecological Associates

Hosts:

Families: 1 | Genera: 1

Geographic Distribution

Keys

• WeiFe2012a: pp.13-16 ( Adult (F) ) [Key to Chinese species of the genus Pseudaulacaspis]

Remarks

• Systematics: P. eucalypticola is close to P. megaloba, but differs by the absence of dorsal macroducts of the submarginal series on the 6th abdominal segment and gland tubercles on the metathorax and 1st abdominal segment (Tang, 1986).
• Structure: Female scale nearly circular, white, about 2.0 mm wide. Adult female body 0.7 mm long, 0.48 mm wide. Pygidial lobes developed, in 3 pairs; median lobes robust and sunken with a pair of setae between them and free margin serrated; 2nd and 3rd pairs small and divided (Tang, 1986).
• General Remarks: Detailed description and illustration by Tang (1986).

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