Aulacaspis yasumatsui

Aulacaspis yasumatsui
Aulacaspis yasumatsui
the cycad aulacaspis scale
Scientific classification
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Arthropoda
Class: Insecta
Order: Hemiptera
Suborder: Sternorrhyncha
Superfamily: Coccoidea
Family: Diaspididae
Genus: Aulacaspis
Species: A. yasumatsui
Binomial name
Aulacaspis yasumatsui
Takagi, 1977
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Aulacaspis yasumatsui, or cycad aulacaspis scale (CAS), is a scale insect species in the genus Aulacaspis that feeds on cycad species such as Cycas revoluta[1] or Dioon purpusii (Purpus' cycad).

References

  1. Aulacaspis yasumatsui (Hemiptera: Sternorrhyncha: Diaspididae), a Scale Insect Pest of Cycads Recently Introduced into Florida. Forrest W. Howard, Avas Hamon, Michael Mclaughlin, Thomas Weissling and Si-lin Yang, The Florida Entomologist, March 1999, Vol. 82, No. 1, pages 14-27 (article)