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Lepidosaphes glaucae Takahashi, 1932 (Diaspididae: Lepidosaphes)

Nomenclatural History

• Lepidosaphes glaucae Takahashi 1932: 47-48. Type data: TAIWAN: Shirin, Urai, on Quercus glauca. Syntypes, female, Type depository: Taichung: Entomology Collection, Taiwan Agricultural Research Institute, Wu-feng, Taichung, Taiwan; accepted valid name Illustr.
• Parainsulaspis glaucae (Takahashi, 1932); Borchsenius 1963: 1163. change of combination
• Lepidosaphes glancae Takahashi, 1932; Tao 1978: 94. misspelling of species epithet

Common Names

Ecological Associates

Hosts:

Families: 3 | Genera: 3

Geographic Distribution

Keys

• Chou1982: pp.156 ( Adult (F) ) [Key to Chinese species of Lepidosaphes]
• Paik1978: pp.338 ( Adult (F) ) [Key to species of Lepidosaphes]
• Takagi1960: pp.94 ( Adult (F) ) [Key to species of Lepidosaphes]

Remarks

• Systematics: Lepidosaphes glaucae is characterized by the very wide 2nd lobes (Takahashi, 1932).
• Structure: Adult female 1.03 mm long and 0.42 mm wide, body slender, only slightly broadened abdominally; free abdominal segments each weakly produced laterally; pygidium rounded along its free margin. Second female exuviae elongate, weakly expanded in abdominal region, slightly narrowing anteriorly in cephalothoracic region, 0.84 mm long and 0.38 mm wide (Takagi, 1960).
• General Remarks: Detailed description and illustration by Takagi (1960).

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