Valid Names Results

Pseudaulacaspis ficicola Tang, 1986 (Diaspididae: Pseudaulacaspis)

Nomenclatural History

• Pseudaulacaspis ficicola Tang 1986: 148. Type data: CHINA: Guangdong, Zhaoqing, on Ficus retusa. Holotype, female, Type depository: Shanxi: Entomological Institute, Shanxi Agricultural University, Taigu, Shanxi, China; accepted valid name Illustr.

Common Names

Ecological Associates

Hosts:

Families: 2 | Genera: 2

Geographic Distribution

Keys

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

Remarks

• Systematics: Pseudaulacaspis ficicola is close to Rutherfordia major, but differs in the distribution of the dorsal macroducts, which are present on the meso- and metathorax, the 1st and 6th abdominal segments with the median series (Tang, 1986).
• Structure: Female scale circular, brownish-white, 2.0 mm wide, exuviae central and yellowish-brown. Male scale elongate, white, felted with waxen threads. Female body nearly circular, 1.18 mm long. Pygidial lobes in 2 pairs, median ones robust, with the margin serrate, 2nd ones very small and bilobulated. A pair of setae present between the 2 median lobes with basal zygosis well developed (Tang, 1986).
• General Remarks: Detailed description and illustration by Tang (1986).

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