Bambusaspis Cockerell

Genus BAMBUSASPIS Cockerell Asterolecanium (Bambusaspis) Cockerell, 1902: 114. Type species: Chermes miliaris Boisduval by subsequent designation in Sanders (1906: 6). Field characters: Species of Bambusaspis are usually confined to bamboo hosts. Live adult female living under a glassy test, elongate and often very narrow. Diagnostic characters of the adult female: Slide-mounted, body with a marginal row of 8-shaped pores. A pair of submedian dorsal tubes present near posterior end of abdomen. Venter with interrupted row of submarginal setae, these absent forwards from anterior spiracles. Comments: Worldwide, 61 species are included in Bambusaspis (García Morales et al. 2016); only B. bambusae (Boisduval) is known from Iran (Farahbakhsh 1961).