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Bamboo Thread Scales
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Bamboo Thread Scales

Kuwanaspis

Kuwanaspis is a genus of armoured scales in the family Diaspididae. These scale insects typically feed on Bamboo plants such as Phyllostachys heteroclada (fishscale bamboo) and Pleioblastus amarus (bitter bamboo).

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5 branches of this genus, most-observed first

Bamboo Diaspidid

speciesKuwanaspis pseudoleucaspis

Kuwanaspis vermiformis

speciesKuwanaspis vermiformis

Kuwanaspis suishana

speciesKuwanaspis suishana

Kuwanaspis hikosani

speciesKuwanaspis hikosani

Bamboo White Scale

speciesKuwanaspis howardi

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Recorded sightings

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This page is assembled live from iNaturalist, GBIF, Wikipedia, the Source Library and the Internet Archive. It is not yet part of the hand-edited codex. iNaturalist taxon 376791.