Valid Names Results
Myrtaspis calcarifera Takagi, 2020 (Diaspididae: Myrtaspis)Nomenclatural History
- Myrtaspis calcarifera Takagi 2020: 31. Type data: MALAYA: Bukit Timah, on Eugenia longiflora, 7/7/1992, by S. Takagi. Holotype, female, by original designation Type depository: Kepong: Forest Research Institute of Malaysia, Selandgor, Malaysia; accepted valid name Illustr.
Common Names
Ecological Associates
Hosts:
Families: 2 | Genera: 5
- Myrtaceae
- Melaleuca cajuputi | Takagi2020
- Rhodamnia cinerea | Takagi2020
- Rhodomyrtus tomentosa | Takagi2020
- Syzygium lineatum | Takagi2020 | (= Eugenia longiflora)
- Syzygium tectum | Takagi2020 | (= Eugenia tecta)
- Rubiaceae
- Ixora | Takagi2020
- Ixora pyrantha | Takagi2020
Geographic Distribution
Countries: 2
- Malaysia
- Malaya | Takagi2020
- Sabah | Takagi2020
- Sarawak | Takagi2020
- Singapore | Takagi2020
Keys
Remarks
- Systematics: This species usually bears small triangular processes or spurs on the pygidial margin. In having this character it may be closely allied to Myrtaspis marginalis, from which it is easily distinguishable in having fewer marginal gland spines on the fourth and fifth abdominal segments. (Takagi, 2020)
- Structure: Adult female. Median trullae in ‘normal form’ (see Remarks) larger or longer than mesal lobules of second and third trullae, sunken into apex of pygidium basally, divergent, with a pair of small basal sclerites, which are set close together or separated from each other and connected by a sclerotized band of derm. (Takagi, 2020)
- General Remarks: Detailed description and illustration in Takagi, 2020.
Illustrations
Citations
- Takagi2020: description, diagnosis, distribution, host, illustration, 31-32, 63-68
