Valid Names Results

Unaspis acuminata (Green, 1896) (Diaspididae: Unaspis)

Nomenclatural History

• Chionaspis acuminata Green 1896: 3. Type data: SRI LANKA: Punduloya, on Ardisia sp.. Syntypes, female, 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; accepted valid name
• Unaspis acuminata (Green, 1896); MacGillivray 1921: 339. change of combination

Common Names

Ecological Associates

Hosts:

Families: 17 | Genera: 23

Foes:

Families: 1 | Genera: 1

Geographic Distribution

Keys

• NiuFe2019: pp.579 ( Adult (F) ) [Species of Unaspis]
• Watson2015a: pp.437 ( Adult (F) ) [slide-mounted adult females of Unaspis]
• Zeng2000: pp.51 ( Adult (F) ) [Key to Chinese species of Unaspis]
• Tang1986: pp.131 ( Adult (F) ) [Key to species of Unaspis]
• Chen1983: pp.29 ( Adult (F) ) [Key to species of Unaspis]
• Chou1982: pp.67 ( Adult (F) ) [Key to Chinese species of Unaspis]
• Rao1949: pp.64 ( Adult (F) ) [Key to species of Unaspis]
• MacGil1921: pp.339 ( Adult (F) ) [Key to species of Unaspis]
• Green1899a: pp.108 ( ) [Synopsis of Chionaspis species] Key as: Chionaspis acuminata

Remarks

• Structure: Female scale 2.0 mm long, bluish gray, with pale margins and with a median ridge. Adult female with body membranous throughout. Median pygidial lobes retracted little or not at all into body, parallel or very slightly divergent, their apices rounded and not serrate. 2nd and 3rd pairs of lobes well developed, each lobule almost or quite as large as the median lobes (Rao, 1949). Median pygidial lobes and mesal lobules of lateral pygidial lobes each basally with a pair of long slender scleroses converging anteriorly. (Takagi, 2023)
• Biology: Unaspis acuminata was collected at an altitude of 2,000 feet (Green, 1919c).
• General Remarks: Detailed description and illustration by Green (1899) and Tang (1986).

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