Aulacaspis tegalensis

Aulacaspis tegalensis, known as sugarcane scale, is a scale insect species in the family Diaspididae.

Sugarcane scale
Scientific classification
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Arthropoda
Class: Insecta
Order: Hemiptera
Suborder: Sternorrhyncha
Family: Diaspididae
Genus: Aulacaspis
Species:
A. tegalensis
Binomial name
Aulacaspis tegalensis
(Zehntner, 1898)
Synonyms
  • Aulacaspis major (Rutherford, 1916)
  • Aulacaspis rutherfordi (Morrison, 1924)
  • Chionaspis tegalensis (Zehntner, 1898)
  • Diaspis rutherfordi (Box, 1953)
  • Diaspis rutherfordii (Rao & Sankaran, 1969)
  • Miscanthaspis tegalensis (Borchsenius, 1966)

The species is distributed across east Africa and southern Asia, with records from Madagascar, Kenya, Thailand, Tanzania, Taiwan, Reunion, Singapore, Uganda, Seychelles, Papua New Guinea, Mauritius, Indonesia, India, Federated States of Micronesia, Malaysia and the Philippines.[1]

References
  1. "Aulacaspis tegalensis (Zehntner, 1898)". www.gbif.org. Retrieved 2020-06-08.


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