Akkaiopsis Zhang, Chen, Zhong & Li, in Zhang 1999 = Tuberocephalus Shinji 1929 Akkaiopsis boschophaga Zhang, Chen, Zhong & Li, in Zhang 1999 = Tuberocephalus sasakii (Matsumura 1917)

A specimen from IOZ­CAS collection labelled as Akkaiopsis boschophaga, which was described from Qinghai, China, on “a shrub of family Ericaceae ” appears to be an apterous exule of Tuberocephalus sasakii, which host­alternates between Prunus and Artemisia in eastern Asia.