Species Aulacaspis tegalensis (Zehntner, 1898)
- Chionaspis tegalensis Zehntner, L. 1898. De Plantenluizen van het Suikerriet op Java. Archiv für Java-Suikerind 6(2): 1085-1098 [1091-1093].
Type data:
Status unknown, whereabouts unknown, Java.Type host:
Saccharum officinarum L. [GRAMINEAE] - Aulacaspis major Rutherford, A. 1914. Some Ceylon Coccidae. Bulletin of Entomological Research 5: 259-268 [259].
Distribution
Extra Distribution Information
Thursday Is.
IBRA
Qld: Brigalow Belt North (BBN), Brigalow Belt South (BBS), Central Mackay Coast (CMC), Cape York Peninsula (CYP), Desert Uplands (DEU), Einasleigh Uplands (EIU), NSW North Coast (NNC), South Eastern Queensland (SEQ), Wet Tropics (WT)
Other Regions
Torres Strait Islands
Afrotropical Region
- Mauritius
- Réunion
Australian Region
- Australia
- Queensland: NE coastal, Torres Strait Islands
- Federated States of Micronesia
- Papua New Guinea
Oriental Region
- Indonesia
- Java
- Philippines
- Taiwan
Ecological Descriptors
Sap-feeder (associated flora: Saccharum officinarum L. [POACEAE]).
General References
Beardsley, J.W. 1966. Insects of Micronesia. Homoptera: Coccoidea. Insects of Micronesia 6: 377-562 [530] (as Aulacaspis tegalensis)
Fernald, M.E. 1903. A catalogue of the Coccidae of the world. Bulletin of the Hatch Experiment Station of the Massachusetts Agricultural College 88: 1-360 [226] (as Chionaspis tegalensis)
MacGillivray, A.D. 1921. The Coccidae. Tables for the identification of the subfamilies and some of the more important genera and species together with discussions of their anatomy and life history. Urbana, Illinois : Scarab Company vi 502 pp. [304] (as Chionaspis tegalensis)
Scott, C.L. 1952. The scale insect genus Aulacaspis in Eastern Asia (Homoptera: Coccoidea: Diaspididae). Microentomology 17(2): 33-60 [40-41] (as Aulacaspis tegalensis; description; illustration)
Takahashi, R. 1940. Some Coccidae from Formosa and Japan (Homoptera), V. Mushi 13: 18-28 [26] (as Aulacaspis tegalensis)
Williams, D.J. & Watson, G.W. 1988. The Scale Insects of the Tropical South Pacific Region. Part 1. The armoured scales (Diaspididae). London : CAB International Institute of Entomology 290 pp. [75-76] (as Aulacaspis tegalensis (= A. major syn. nov.))