Bambusaspis, Cockerell

Moghaddam, Masumeh & Watson, Gillian W., 2024, The Scale Insects Of Iran (Hemiptera: Coccomorpha) Part 3 The Soft Scales (Coccidae) And Other Families, Zootaxa 5542 (1), pp. 1-202 : 26

publication ID	https://doi.org/ 10.11646/zootaxa.5542.1.1
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DOI	https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.14447945
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scientific name	Bambusaspis
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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).