Aulacaspis tegalensis

Sugarcane scale
Scientific classification
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Arthropoda
Class:	Insecta
Order:	Hemiptera
Suborder:	Sternorrhyncha
Family:	Diaspididae
Genus:	Aulacaspis
Species:	A. tegalensis
Binomial name
	Aulacaspis tegalensis; (Zehntner, 1898)
Synonyms[1]
	Aulacaspis major (Rutherford, 1916); Aulacaspis rutherfordi (Morrison, 1924); Chionaspis tegalensis Zehntner, 1898;

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

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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[1] Williams, D.J.; Watson, Gillian W. (1993). "Aulacaspis (Homoptera: Diaspididae) on sugarcane and other Saccharum spp. (Gramineae)". Bulletin of Entomological Research. 83: 649–654.

[2] "Aulacaspis tegalensis (Zehntner, 1898)". www.gbif.org. Retrieved 2020-06-08.

[3] "Aulacaspis tegalensis". Diaspididae of the World 2.0. ETI BioInformatics. Retrieved 5 January 2021.