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Bandamacoccus labiosus Hodgson, 2023 (Coccidae: Bandamacoccus)

Nomenclatural History

• Bandamacoccus labiosus Hodgson 2023a: 494. Type data: IVORY COAST: Bouaké, WARDA [West African Rice Development Association], on Ficus sp., 9/25/1995, by C. Hodgson. Holotype, female, by monotypy and original designation Type depository: London: The Natural History Museum, England, UK; accepted valid name Notes: 3 paratype second-instar males (NHM, fair to good condition, mounted separately on 3 slides). Illustr.

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Families: 1 | Genera: 1

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• Systematics: Within the Afrotropical Coccini, adult female B. labiosus differs from all other species in this tribe in having the following combination of character-states: (i) submarginal tubercles; (ii) large dorsal microducts (which appear bilocular); (iii) preopercular pores either absent or very few; (iv) dorsal setae very few and setose; (v) anal plates each with three (probably) spinose setae along inner margin plus a setose apical seta; (vi) each stigmatic area with 3 stigmatic spines, median spine many times longer than lateral spines; (vii) marginal setae spinose, many with a flagellate apex; (viii) multilocular disc-pores with mainly 10 loculi; (ix) labium much larger than usual, clearly broader than clypeolabral shield; (x) legs without a tibio-tarsal articulation and sclerosis; (xi) claw digitules both narrow, (xii) claw without a denticle, and (xiii) antennae 7 segmented. Perhaps the most unusual character-state is the very large size of the labium, which is wider than the clypeolabral shield (Hodgson, 2023a)
• Structure: Slide mounted body roundly oval, probably rather flat, lacking stigmatic clefts but with a wide anal cleft. Length 2.6 mm, width 1.9 mm. (Hodgson, 2023a) Second-instar male roundly oval, probably rather flat, lacking stigmatic clefts but with a wide anal cleft. Length 1.4–1.7 mm, width 0.9–1.2 mm. The inner submarginal band of microducts on the venter appears to be a unique feature of second-instar male B. labiosus, as this arrangement appears to be otherwise unknown in the Coccidae. (Hodgson, 2023a)
• General Remarks: Detailed description and illustration in Hodgson, 2023a.

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