Valid Names Results

Pseudaulacaspis rubra (Maskell, 1898) (Diaspididae: Pseudaulacaspis)

Diaspis amygdali rubra Maskell 1898: 228. Type data: SRI LANKA: Kandy, on Loranthus, in 1897, by Mr. Koebele. Lectotype, female, Type depository: Auckland: New Zealand Arthropod Collection, Landcare Research, New Zealand; accepted valid name
Aulacaspis pentagona rubra (Maskell, 1898); Fernald 1903b: 235. change of combination
Diaspis barberi Green 1908a: 35-36. Type data: INDIA: Tamil Nadu, Tanjore (=Thanjavur), on Loranthus sp., by C.A. Barber. Lectotype, female, by subsequent designation Type depository: London: The Natural History Museum, England, UK; Washington: United States National Entomological Collection, U.S. National Museum of Natural History, District of Columbia, USA; junior synonym (discovered by MillerGiWi2003, 943). Illustr.
Aulacaspis barberi (Green, 1908); Rutherford 1915a: 110. change of combination
Pseudaulacaspis barberi (Green, 1908); MacGillivray 1921: 316. change of combination
Diaspis rubra Maskell, 1898; Scott 1952: 35. change of combination
Pseudaulacaspis rubra (Maskell, 1898); Miller, Gimpel & Williams 2003: 943-946. change of combination and rank

Families: 3 | Genera: 4

Families: 2 | Genera: 2

Countries: 2

Systematics: Maskell (1898) included two species (from two locations) in the type series of Diaspis amydali rubra. One species was from Japan and was found to be Pseudaulacaspis prunicola by Davidson et al. (1983). The material from Kandy, Sri Lanka (= Ceylon) was Diaspis amygdali rubra Maskell lot no 565 and Koebele lot number 1410. The lectotype was designated by Miller, et al. (2003).
Structure: Female scale opaque white, subcircular, sometimes bluntly pointed at posterior extremity, moderately convex above. Exuviae eccentric, placed towards anterior margin, larval exuviae reddish, exposed; nymphal exuviae castaneous or ochreous, very thinly coated with secretion. Adult female widely turbinate, broadest across thoracic segments. Margins of abdominal segments slightly roundly produced. Median lobes divergent, prominent, broadly flabelliform, constricted at base, the rounded outer edge slightly and irregularly incised (Green, 1908a).
General Remarks: Detailed description and illustration by Green (1908a). Additional illustrations by Miller et al (2003).