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A New Record of the Armored Scale Genus Carulaspis Macgillivray University of Nebraska - Lincoln DigitalCommons@University of Nebraska - Lincoln Center for Systematic Entomology, Gainesville, Insecta Mundi Florida 2016 A new record of the armored scale genus Carulaspis MacGillivray (Hemiptera: Diaspididae) from Korea and its aphelinid parasitoids (Hymenoptera: Aphelinidae) Soo-Jung Suh 167, Yongjeon 1-ro, Gimcheon-si Gyeongsangbuk-do, South Korea, [email protected] Gregory A. Evans USDA/Animal Plant Health Inspection Service Follow this and additional works at: http://digitalcommons.unl.edu/insectamundi Part of the Ecology and Evolutionary Biology Commons, and the Entomology Commons Suh, Soo-Jung and Evans, Gregory A., "A new record of the armored scale genus Carulaspis MacGillivray (Hemiptera: Diaspididae) from Korea and its aphelinid parasitoids (Hymenoptera: Aphelinidae)" (2016). Insecta Mundi. 974. http://digitalcommons.unl.edu/insectamundi/974 This Article is brought to you for free and open access by the Center for Systematic Entomology, Gainesville, Florida at DigitalCommons@University of Nebraska - Lincoln. It has been accepted for inclusion in Insecta Mundi by an authorized administrator of DigitalCommons@University of Nebraska - Lincoln. INSECTA MUNDI A Journal of World Insect Systematics 0466 A new record of the armored scale genus Carulaspis MacGillivray (Hemiptera: Diaspididae) from Korea and its aphelinid parasitoids (Hymenoptera: Aphelinidae) Soo-Jung Suh 167, Yongjeon 1-ro, Gimcheon-si Gyeongsangbuk-do, South Korea 39660 Gregory A. Evans USDA/Animal Plant Health Inspection Service 10300 Baltimore Avenue Beltsville, MD 20705 USA Date of Issue: January 22, 2016 CENTER FOR SYSTEMATIC ENTOMOLOGY, INC., Gainesville, FL Soo-Jung Suh and Gregory A. 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Evans USDA/Animal Plant Health Inspection Service 10300 Baltimore Avenue Beltsville, MD 20705 USA Abstract. Carulaspis juniperi (Bouché) is newly documented as occurring in the Korean fauna of armored scales (Hemiptera: Diaspididae). The characters of this genus and species are redescribed based on specimens collected in Korea. In addition, four species of aphelinids (Hymenoptera: Aphelinidae) associated with C. juniperi were col- lected in Korea during the survey. Of these, Aphytis japonicus DeBach and Azim and Encarsia explorata (Silvestri) are recorded for the fi rst time from C. juniperi. Key words. Aphytis japonicus, Carulaspis juniperi, Encarsia explorata Introduction Carulaspis MacGillivray (Hemiptera: Diaspididae) was described in 1921 with Aspidiotus juniperi Bouché as the type species, and currently contains seven species known worldwide (Ben-Dov et al. 2015). Of these, six species have been documented from the Palaearctic and three species from the Australasian region (Carulaspis juniperi (Bouché) and Carulaspis minima (Signoret) occur in both regions). This genus is closely related to Diaspis Costa, but differs mainly by possessing gland spines between the median lobes and submarginal dorsal macroducts absent from abdominal segment 6 (Gill 1997). Species belonging to Carulaspis occur on conifers only, and are regarded as Palaearctic in origin (Williams and Watson 1988; Miller and Davidson 2005). Knowledge of the Korean fauna of the armored scales (Diaspididae) began in 1928 with the publica- tion of Machida and Aoyama [cited from the publication of Paik (2000)]; so far, eighty fi ve species have been documented (Paik 1978; Paik 2000; Suh and Hodges 2007; Lee 2010; Suh 2011, 2012, 2013, 2014, 2015; Yu and Suh 2013), but until now the genus Carulaspis has not been documented in Korea. In a recent survey (2015) of Chungcheongnamdo, one species of Carulaspis occurring on white cedars [Thuja occidentalis L. (Cupressaceae)] was recorded. It was identifi ed as the juniper scale, Carulaspis juniperi and this species is newly reported from the Republic of Korea. In this paper, a diagnosis, photographs, host plants and distribution of C. juniperi are provided for the correct identifi cation of this species. In addition, we conducted a survey of the aphelinid parasitoids of the juniper scale in Korea. Cur- rently, seven species of Aphelinidae (Hymenoptera) associated with C. juniperi have been reported in the scientifi c literature (Noyes 2015). During this survey, the following four species of aphelinids were collected and identifi ed as: Aphytis japonicus DeBach and Azim, Encarsia citrina (Craw), E. explorata (Silvestri) and Encarsia sp. nr. perniciosi (Tower). Of these, A. japonicus and E. explorata are herein recorded for the fi rst time from C. juniperi. Materials and Methods All slide mounted in Canada balsam and dry specimens of the juniper scale used for this paper are deposited in the Collection of Plant Quarantine Technology Center (CPQTC), QIA, in Korea. Terminol- ogy for morphological structures used in a diagnosis follows that of Miller and Davidson (2005). Some of the aphelinid specimens reared from the juniper scale were mounted in Hoyer’s medium and the others were preserved in alcohol and deposited in the CPQTC. Terminology for the morphological structures 2 • INSECTA MUNDI 0466, January 2016 SUH AND EVANS used in the diagnoses follows that of Hayat (1998). Photographs were taken using an AxioCam MRc5 camera through a ZEISS Axio Imager M2 Microscope and a Leica M165C microscope with a Delta pix camera. An asterisk (*) is used to indicate a new host and distribution record. Results Systematic accounts Genus Carulaspis MacGillivray, 1921 Carulaspis MacGillivray 1921: 305. Type species: Aspidiotus juniperi Bouché. Diagnosis. Cover of adult female white, circular. Body circular to turbinate in shape, with the pygidium slightly pointed at apex, with median lobes rounded, separated by a space, lobe 2 bilobate with medial lobule almost as large as median lobe and lateral lobule smaller than median lobule, lobe 3 bilobate or simple and smaller than lobe 2. Short gland spines present
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