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Bambusaspis Cockerell

Year: 2024

Type: other

Abstract: Genus BAMBUSASPIS Cockerell Asterolecanium (Bambusaspis) Cockerell, 1902: 114. Type species: Chermes miliaris Boisduval by subsequent designation in Sanders (1906: 6). Field characters: Species of Bambusaspis are usually confined to bamboo hosts. Live adult female living under a glassy test, elongate and often very narrow. Diagnostic characters of the adult female: Slide-mounted, body with a marginal row of 8-shaped pores. A pair of submedian dorsal tubes present near posterior end of abdomen. Venter with interrupted row of submarginal setae, these absent forwards from anterior spiracles. Comments: Worldwide, 61 species are included in Bambusaspis (García Morales et al. 2016); only B. bambusae (Boisduval) is known from Iran (Farahbakhsh 1961).

Source: Zenodo (CERN European Organization for Nuclear Research)

DOI: 10.5281/zenodo.14447944

Authors: Moghaddam, Masumeh, Watson, Gillian W.

Institutions: Agricultural Research & Education Organization, Iranian Research Institute of Plant Protection, Natural History Museum

Language: English

Topic: Research on scale insects

Subfield: Insect Science

Field: Agricultural and Biological Sciences

Domain: Life Sciences

Open Access status: green

OpenAlex ID: W6911843271

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