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Paralecanium calophylli (Green, 1904) (Coccidae: Paralecanium)

Lecanium (Paralecanium) calophylli Green 1904d: 240. Type data: SRI LANKA: Newara Eliya, on Calophyllum sp.. Syntypes, female, Type depository: London: The Natural History Museum, England, UK; accepted valid name Notes: Lectotype f and paralectotype ff (designated in Hodgson & Williams, 2018): SRI LANKA (as Ceylon): top label: TYPE in red on round label; lectotype in red on narrow label; bottom label: Lecanium / calophylli / Green / from Calophyllum sp. /Newera Eliya [now spelt Nawara Eliya] / Ceylon (BMNH):
Paralecanium calophylli (Green, 1904); Sanders 1906: 9. change of combination

Families: 1 | Genera: 1

Countries: 1

Systematics: In having reduced legs, P. calophylli resembles P. ovatum and P. neoguineense, but differs from both species in having: (i) multilocular disc-pores present only in abdominal segments VII and VI (present on VII–V on the other two species), (ii) no marginal ornamentation, and (iii) in the smaller size of the larger dorsal pores and their much greater abundance, covering the entire dorsum apart from a fairly narrow area submarginally. The distribution of the darker oval-to-round areolations on the dorsum is also different. Paralecanium neoguineense differs from P. calophylli also in having setose dorsal setae.
Structure: “Adult female deep reddish brown. Flat; broadly oval; margin slightly sinuous. Dorsum with a slight median ridge and several series of quadrangular depressed spaces, sometimes occupied by thin waxy laminae; surface coarsely punctate. Stigmatic clefts deep but inconspicuous, with three blunt stout spines not reaching the margin. Marginal hairs flabelliform, attached dorsally within the margin but in older examples almost concealed by an outward extension of the dorsum; margin beneath each flabella produced into a quadrate process.” “Length 3.50 mm. Breadth 2.75 to 3.0 mm.” (Green 1904, p. 240). Slide-mounted adult female. Body broadly oval. Length 3.3–3.5 mm, width 2.7–2.9 mm. (Hodgson & Williams, 2018)
General Remarks: Detailed redescription in Hodgson & Williams, 2018.