New species of the diaspidid genus Lepidosaphes （Hemiptera： diaspididae） on cypress from Tibet of China  

作　　者：WEI Jiu-feng CAI WANG Ji-mei FENG Ji-nian 

机构地区：[1]Key Laboratory of Plant Protection Resources and Pest Management, Ministry of Education, Plant Protection College, Northwest A ＆ F University, Yangling 712100, China [2]Forest Diseases and Insect Pests Control Station of Tibet, Lhasa 850000, China

出　　处：《Journal of Agricultural Science and Technology》2009年第1期51-53,共3页农业科学与技术（美国大卫英文）

基　　金：The project was supported by the National Natural Science Foundation of China NSFC, （No. 30870324）.

摘　　要：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.

关 键 词：HEMIPTERA DIASPIDIDAE Lepidosaphes new species Tibet China 

分 类 号：Q969.367.6[生物学—昆虫学] Q959.226