Aulacaspis yasumatsui

Cycad aulacaspis scale
Cycad aulacaspis scale
Scientific classification
Kingdom:
Animalia
Phylum:
Arthropoda
Class:
Insecta
Order:
Hemiptera
Suborder:
Sternorrhyncha
Superfamily:
Coccoidea
Family:
Diaspididae
Genus:
Aulacaspis
Species:
A. yasumatsui
Binomial name
Aulacaspis yasumatsui
Takagi, 1977

Aulacaspis yasumatsui, or cycad aulacaspis scale (CAS), is a scale insect species in the genus Aulacaspis that feeds on cycad species such as Cycas revoluta[1] or Dioon purpusii (Purpus' cycad). Other common names include the cycad scale, the sago palm scale,[2] and the Asian cycad scale.[3] This is a serious pest of cycads which can kill its host plant.

  1. ^ Aulacaspis yasumatsui (Hemiptera: Sternorrhyncha: Diaspididae), a Scale Insect Pest of Cycads Recently Introduced into Florida. Forrest W. Howard, Avas Hamon, Michael Mclaughlin, Thomas Weissling and Si-lin Yang, The Florida Entomologist, March 1999, Vol. 82, No. 1, pages 14–27 (article)
  2. ^ Miller, Douglass R.; Davidson, John A. (2005). Armored Scale Insect Pests of Trees and Shrubs (Hemiptera : Diaspididae). Cornell University Press. pp. 93–95. ISBN 0-8014-4279-6.
  3. ^ Cite error: The named reference Bahadur was invoked but never defined (see the help page).