Valid Names Results

Carulaspis silvestrii Lupo, 1966 (Diaspididae: Carulaspis)

Nomenclatural History

• Carulaspis silvestrii Lupo 1966: 43-48. Type data: ITALY: Sicily, Ragusa province, Donnalucata, Bosco Gravina, on Juniperus macrocarpa, 11/03/1964, leg. V. Lupo. Neotype, female, by present designation (NucifoMaKa2025,129). Type depository: Catania: Dipartimento di Agricoltura, Alimentazione e Ambiente, University of Catania, Italy; accepted valid name Notes: Original type depository unknown. Topotype: 1 adult female, same locality data (LIB-ZMH) Illustr.
• Carulaspis silvestri Lupo, 1966; Danzig 1993: 381. misspelling of species epithet
• Carulaspis taxicola; Danzig & Pellizzari 1998: 204. incorrect synonymy Notes: This synonymy was entirely accidental, a lapsus calami (Danzig, personal communication, 26 October 1999).

Common Names

Ecological Associates

Hosts:

Families: 1 | Genera: 2

Geographic Distribution

Keys

• NucifoMaKa2025: pp.135 ( Adult (F) ) [Carulaspis species]
• Lupo1966: pp.43 ( Adult (F) ) [Key to Carulaspis]

Remarks

• Systematics: Carulaspis silvestrii is close to C. juniperi and somewhat similar to C. visci and C. minima; it differs in having the body of the adult female more elongate and less turbinate, in the presence of three gland spines on the first spaces (between the median lobe and the second lobe), the absence of gland spines between median lobes. Carulaspis silvestrii differs from C. atlantica and C. visci also by the absence of submarginal dorsal macropores after segment 5 in adult females, and from C. minima in having a median macropore between the L1. (Nucifora et al. 2025)
• Structure: Female scale circular or oval, depressed, dirty white in color (Lupo, 1966).
  In life: Adult female cover rather circular, slightly convex, white; with central exuviae, yellow; ventral veil often absent, sometimes reduced to a thin white partial residue. Male cover elongate, white, felted and with 1 or 3 longitudinal ridges, with apical exuvia, yellow. Body of adult female yellow or reddish-brown. On needle-like leaves and cones. Slide-mounted female: Body oval, longer than wide, slightly turbinate. The first and second pairs of lobes well-developed; third and fourth lobes represented by sclerotized raised areas. Small paraphyses on the developed lobes. Dorsal seta laterad of median lobes never extending beyond apex of lobes. Macroducts located in body margin and submarginal and submedial areas of abdomen, with total of 50–120 ducts on each side of body, counting all macroduct orifices anterior to anal opening. Microducts in dorsal surface located in medial area among head and prothorax, with a cluster of 7–13 ducts and in medial or submedial areas, from mesothorax to segment 1, and with 5–10 ducts on each side of body. Antennae tubercle-like, with 2 short, thin setae, and 1 conspicuous curved seta, which is basally divided into 2 setae. (Nucifora et al. 2025)
• General Remarks: Detailed description and illustration by Lupo (1966). Redescription, illustration, and microscopy images by Nucifora et al. (2025).

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