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Duplachionaspis graminis (Green)NOMENCLATURE:
Chionaspis graminis Green, 1896: 3. Type data: SRI LANKA: Punduloya, on Andropogon sp. Syntypes, female. Type depository: London: The Natural History Museum, England, UK. Described: female.
Duplachionaspis graminis; MacGillivray, 1921: 334. Change of combination.
Trichomytilus graminis; Lindinger, 1933a: 165. Change of combination.
Poliaspis graminis; Lindinger, 1943b: 224. Change of combination.
Foes: HYMENOPTERA Aphelinidae: Aphelinus fuscipennis [Garcia1912], Aphelinus mytilaspidis [Green1899a], Aphytis mytilaspidis [Fulmek1943], Aspidiotiphagus citrinis [DeSilv1961]. Encyrtidae: Adelencyrtus chionaspidis [DeSilv1961], Anthemus chionaspidis [Green1899a], Encyrtus chionaspidis [Green1899a].
Hosts: Poaceae: Andropogon nardus [Green1899a], Andropogon sp. [Green1896], Magnifera indica [Cheo1935], Zoisia matrella [Wu1935].
DISTRIBUTION: Oriental: Sri Lanka [Green1896]. Palaearctic: China [Cheo1935]; Japan? [Cheo1935].
GENERAL REMARKS: Detailed description and illustration by Green (1899a).
STRUCTURE: Female scale snowy white, elongate, moderately dilated behind, ventral scale well developed and often coming away unbroken. First exuviae pale transparent fulvous; Adult female elongate, reddish-orange. Exuviae of male dark brown. Adult male bright orange-red, with 3 knobbed digitules on feet (Green, 1899a).
SYSTEMATICS: Archangelskaya's 1937 treatment of Chionaspis graminis Green is actually a misidentification of Duplachionaspis phragmitidis (=D. graminella).
KEYS: MacGillivray 1921: 334 (female) [Key to species of Duplachionaspis]; Green 1899a: 108 [as Chionaspis graminis; Synopsis of Chionaspis species].
CITATIONS: Ali1969a [distribution, host: 42]; Ashmea1900 [biological control: 402]; Balach1954e [taxonomy: 376]; BazaroSh1971 [taxonomy: 104]; Borchs1937 [distribution, host: 186]; Borchs1958 [distribution, taxonomy: 165]; Borchs1966 [catalogue, distribution, host, taxonomy: 129]; Buxton1920 [biological control, distribution: 297]; Cheo1935 [distribution, host: 96]; DEDAC1923 [distribution, host: 6]; DeSilv1961 [biological control, distribution: 119]; Fernal1903b [catalogue, distribution, host, taxonomy: 219]; Ferris1936a [illustration, taxonomy: 21, 48]; Ferris1937 [taxonomy: SI-45]; Ferris1952a [taxonomy: 7]; Fulmek1943 [biological control, distribution: 23]; Garcia1912 [biological control: 84]; Garcia1930 [biological control: 54, 70]; Green1896 [description, distribution, host, taxonomy: 3]; Green1899a [biological control, description, distribution, host, illustration, taxonomy: 108, 123-124]; Green1937 [description, distribution, host: 316]; Hall1923 [taxonomy: 20]; Hall1946 [taxonomy: 65]; Hall1946a [taxonomy: 516]; HowardAs1895 [biological control: 635, 637, 643]; Kuwana1917a [distribution: 15]; Kuwana1928 [description, distribution, host, taxonomy: 26-27]; Lindin1933a [taxonomy: 165]; Lindin1943a [taxonomy: 146]; Lindin1943b [taxonomy: 224]; MacGil1921 [catalogue, distribution, host, taxonomy: 334]; MacMil1935 [distribution: 461]; Mani1938 [biological control, distribution: 94]; Mani1976 [biological control, distribution: 63]; Maskel1897a [distribution, host: 242]; Morley1909 [biological control: 257]; Muntin1977 [taxonomy: 7]; NikolsYa1966 [biological control, distribution: 204]; Pierce1917 [economic importance: 32]; Ramakr1921a [distribution, host: 351]; Ramakr1925a [biological control, distribution: 246]; Ramakr1930 [distribution, host: 16]; Ramakr1940 [distribution, host: 478]; Takagi1970 [taxonomy: 39, 41]; Takagi1971 [distribution, host: 130]; Takaha1929 [taxonomy: 73]; Takaha1932a [distribution, host: 105]; Wu1935 [distribution, host: 200]; Yang1982 [taxonomy: 241].
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