Valid Names Results

Pinnaspis pseudotuberculata (Feng, J.N., Wang, P.M., Li, L.M. & Chou, I., 2004) (Diaspididae: Pinnaspis)

Pinnaspis pseudotuberculatus Feng, J.N., Wang, P.M., Li, L.M. & Chou, I. 2004: 19-22. Type data: CHINA: Yunnan Province, Hekou, Dawei mountain, on Abutilon theophrasti Medicus, 7/10/1974, by I. Chou and Y. Feng. Holotype, , Type depository: Shaanxi: Entomological Museum of the Northwest Sci-Tech University of Agriculture and Forestry, Baishui, Shaanxi, China; accepted valid name

Families: 1 | Genera: 1

Countries: 1

Systematics: This species is similar to P. tuberculatus Tang 1986 and P. frontalis Takagi 1970. but differs from the latters by the following characters: 1)submaginal glands present on each of the third to fifth abdominal segments 7-9, 6-8, 3-6; but P. tuberculatus on the third and forth abdominal segments 0-4, 0-3; and P. frontalis on the forth and fifth abdominal segments, one on each; 2) minute ducts in submedian area present on segments 3 and 4, while P. tuberculatus present on segments 2 to 4, P. frontalis has no minute duct in submedian. (Feng, et al., 2004)