Valid Names Results
Pinnaspis sciadopityos Takagi, 1965 (Diaspididae: Pinnaspis)Nomenclatural History
- Pinnaspis sciadopityos Takagi 1965a: 450-451. Type data: JAPAN: Wakayama Experiment Forest of the Hokkaido University, on Sciadopitys verticillata, by S. Takagi; Omogo-Kei, on S. verticillata, by S. Takagi. Syntypes, female, Type depository: Sapporo: Entomological Institute, Faculty of Agriculture, Hokkaido University, Japan; accepted valid name Illustr.
Common Names
Ecological Associates
Hosts:
Families: 1 | Genera: 1
- Sciadopityaceae
- Sciadopitys verticillata | Takagi1965a
Geographic Distribution
Countries: 1
- Japan
- Hokkaido | Takagi1965a
- Honshu | Muraka1970
- Shikoku | Muraka1970
Keys
Remarks
- Systematics: Pinnaspis sciadopityos is unique in the acute pygidium which terminates in the prominent median lobes (Takagi, 1965a).
- Structure: Female scale elongate, thin and white. Adult female much elongated, almost parallel-sided. Median lobes quite prominent, closely appressed mesally, serrate laterally, with median basal zygosis protruding anteriorly beyond their bases. 2nd lobes reduced in size. 3rd lobes obsolete (Takagi, 1965a).
- General Remarks: Detailed description and illustration by Takagi (1965a).
Illustrations
Citations
- DanzigPe1998: catalog, distribution, host, taxonomy, 335
- Kawai1972: distribution, host, taxonomy, 41
- Kawai1980: distribution, host, taxonomy, 306
- Muraka1970: distribution, host, 93
- Takagi1965a: description, distribution, host, illustration, taxonomy, 450-451
