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Unaspis atricolor

(No common name)

Taxonomy

  • Kingdom: Animalia - Linnaeus, 1758 - animals
    • Phylum: Arthropoda - Latreille, 1829 - arthropods
      • Class: Insecta - Insects
        • Order: Hemiptera - True Bugs
          • Family: Geometroidea
            • Genus: Unaspis
              • Specific name: atricolor (Green, 1922)
                • Scientific name: Unaspis atricolor (Green, 1922)

Ambiguous Synonyms:

  1. Chionaspis acuminata atricolor Ramakrishna Ayyar, 1919

Unambiguous Synonyms:

  1. Chionaspis acuminata atricolor Green, 1922
  2. Unaspis atricolor Rao, 1949

Notes:

Name Status: Accepted Name. Latest taxonomic scrutiny: Ben-Dov Y., Miller, German, Gimpel.

Distribution

Range and Population

Sri Lanka, India

Similar Species

Members of the genus Unaspis:

There are approximately 21 species and subspecies in this genus: U. atricolor · U. citri · U. euonymi · U. acuminata · U. aei · U. aesculi · U. assimilis · U. atricolor · U. citri (Citrus Snow Scale) · U. emei · U. euonymi (Euonymus Scale) · U. flava · U. kanoi · U. mediforma · U. nanningensis · U. permutans · U. pseudaesculus · U. rousseti · U. turpiniae · U. xianensis · U. yanonensis (Arrow-Head Scale)

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Notes

Contributors:

  • Bisby, F.A., Y.R. Roskov, M.A. Ruggiero, T.M. Orrell, L.E. Paglinawan, P.W. Brewer, N. Bailly, J. van Hertum, eds (2007). Species 2000 & ITIS Catalogue of Life: 2007 Annual Checklist. Species 2000: Reading, U.K.
  • Global Biodiversity Information Facility. Accessed January 16, 2008. http://www.gbif.org Mediated distribution data from 4 providers.
  • ScaleNet
  • Systematic Database of the Scale Insects of the World 2004.
  • World Checklist of Selected Plant FamiliesFeb 2, 2006.

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Last Revised: May 10, 2008