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Aulacaspis yasumatsui

Takagi, 1977
Arthropoda » Hemiptera » Diaspididae » Aulacaspis yasumatsui
Aulacaspsis yasumatsui
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Common name (English)
Cycad aulacaspis scale, Cycad scale, Sago palm scale, Asian cycad scale
Ηabitat
J1 Buildings
I2 Parks
X11 Large parks
X22 Non-domestic gardens (small)
X23 Non-domestic gardens (large)
X24 Domestic gardens (urban)

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Establishment status
Unknown
Establishment status detail

Alien:

First detection year
2013
Impacts
Negative

We detected infested potted cycad plants at a supermarket in Magusa. The plants were heavily coated with a white colored scale insect and plants desiccated and brown (Ülgentürk et al. 2015).

Pathway
3 TRANSPORT CONTAMINANT - Contaminant on plants (except parasites) – Con Plant
3 TRANSPORT CONTAMINANT - Contaminant nursery material – CNM
Pathway detail

Speculated (Demetriou pers. comm.)

References

Ülgentürk S, Kaydan MB,  Şişman Hocal¡ S (2015) New scale insect (Hemiptera: Coccomorpha) records for the Turkish Republic of Northern Cyprus. Türkiye Entomoloji Bülteni 5(2): 59–68. https://doi.org/10.16969/teb.16125

"UK Centre for Ecology & Hydrology"
Joint Service Health Unit
University of Cyprus - Department of Biological Sciences
Darwin Initiative
Akrotiri Environment

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