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Adiscofiorinia pygosema (Green & Laing, 1923) (Diaspididae: Adiscofiorinia)

Fiorinia (Adiscofiorinia) pygosema Green & Laing 1923: 124-125. Type data: TANZANIA: south of Dar-es-Salaam, on unidentified mangrove plant, by A.H. Ritchie. Syntypes, female, Type depository: London: The Natural History Museum, England, UK; Washington: United States National Entomological Collection, U.S. National Museum of Natural History, District of Columbia, USA; accepted valid name Illustr.
Fiorinia pygosema Green & Laing, 1923; Bodenheimer 1951: 331. change of combination
Mongrovaspis pygosema (Green & Laing, 1923); Bodenheimer 1951: 331. change of combination
Adiscofiorinia pygosema (Green & Laing, 1923); Borchsenius 1966: 150. change of combination

Countries: 1

Structure: Female puparium shining black, linear, more or less parallel sided, sometimes slightly curved, attenuated both anteriorly and posteriorly. Adult female about three times as long as broad. Rudimentary antennae composed of two slightly curved setae situated on small tubercles. No interantennal tubercle. No parastigmatic pores. Pygidium with circumgenital pores lacking and the apical margin produced into six long slender pointed processes, the median pair about one-third shorter and fused at the base, with a short conical process in the first interval and two in the second interval (Green & Laing, 1923).
General Remarks: Description and illustration by Green & Laing (1923).