Aulacaspis tegalensis
| Sugarcane scale | |
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Scientific classification 
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| Domain: | Eukaryota |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Arthropoda |
| Class: | Insecta |
| Order: | Hemiptera |
| Suborder: | Sternorrhyncha |
| Family: | Diaspididae |
| Genus: | Aulacaspis |
| Species: | A. tegalensis
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| Binomial name | |
| Aulacaspis tegalensis (Zehntner, 1898)
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Aulacaspis tegalensis, known as sugarcane scale or white scale, is a scale insect species in the family Diaspididae.
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.[2] They typically feed on stems, and are known to disperse in their first instar.[3]
References[edit]
- ^ Williams, D.J.; Watson, Gillian W. (1993). "Aulacaspis (Homoptera: Diaspididae) on sugarcane and other Saccharum spp. (Gramineae)". Bulletin of Entomological Research. 83: 649–654.
- ^ "Aulacaspis tegalensis (Zehntner, 1898)". www.gbif.org. Retrieved 2020-06-08.
- ^ "Aulacaspis tegalensis". Diaspididae of the World 2.0. ETI BioInformatics. Retrieved 5 January 2021.
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