Cypress plays an important role in urban afforestation in Tibet of China, and scale insects are a serious pest group that attack Cypress. In this paper, a new species, Lepidosaphes xizangensis Feng, sp. n. from Tibet,...Cypress plays an important role in urban afforestation in Tibet of China, and scale insects are a serious pest group that attack Cypress. In this paper, a new species, Lepidosaphes xizangensis Feng, sp. n. from Tibet, is described. Its damages to cypress trees are recorded. The new species is similar to Lepidosaphes pineti Borchsenius, 1958, with its perivulvar disc pores arranging in eight groups, but can be distinguished from the latter by the following characteristics： （1） gland spines between median lobes longer than median lobes; （2） distance between median lobes similar than width of median lobes; （3） dorsal gland ducts are much more slender. It enriches the diversity of Lepidosaphes fauna of China and adds new information of coccids＇ damages to cypress.展开更多
基金The project was supported by the National Natural Science Foundation of China NSFC, （No. 30870324）.
文摘Cypress plays an important role in urban afforestation in Tibet of China, and scale insects are a serious pest group that attack Cypress. In this paper, a new species, Lepidosaphes xizangensis Feng, sp. n. from Tibet, is described. Its damages to cypress trees are recorded. The new species is similar to Lepidosaphes pineti Borchsenius, 1958, with its perivulvar disc pores arranging in eight groups, but can be distinguished from the latter by the following characteristics： （1） gland spines between median lobes longer than median lobes; （2） distance between median lobes similar than width of median lobes; （3） dorsal gland ducts are much more slender. It enriches the diversity of Lepidosaphes fauna of China and adds new information of coccids＇ damages to cypress.
