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Parunaspis beilschmiediae Takagi, 2024 (Diaspididae: Parunaspis)

Nomenclatural History

• Parunaspis beilschmiediae Takagi 2024: 162. Type data: MALAYSIA: Malaya, Kuala Lumpur, Bukit Nanas, on Beilschmiedia sp. (Lauraceae), 8/23/1990. Holotype, female, by original designation Type depository: Kepong: Forest Research Institute of Malaysia, Selandgor, Malaysia; accepted valid name Illustr.

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Families: 1 | Genera: 1

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Remarks

• Systematics: Similar to Unaspis rousseti Balachowsky (1957) in the pygidial apex with a pair of enlarged median lobes with a pair of elongated marginal setae between their bases, but setae of U. rousseti depicted very fine. "If these setae are, in reality, stiffened and the first-instar nymph has 6-segmented antennae, U. rousseti should represent a second species of Parunaspis as understood here. This is, however, no more than a possibility." (Takagi 2024)
• Structure: Female test brownish gray, without a distinct median ridge; male test with waxy cover not carinate. Adult female: Body elongated; when fully grown, derm wholly sclerotized and body appearing to be composed of two distinct parts, cephalothorax and abdomen; cephalothorax longer than abdomen, nearly oblong, vertical margin broadly rounded or nearly flat, sometimes even concaved medially; abdomen with segments I-III well lobed laterally; pygidium broad. Antennal tubercles conical, situated on head margin, projecting anteriorly, with a curved fleshy seta subbasally on lateral side. Both pairs of spiracles with disc pores, these being arranged in a flat arch in front of each spiracle, tending to make a double row in lateral part of the arch, some 8-18 disc pores associated with anterior and 4-8 with posterior spiracle. Prosoma with microducts strewn on ventral surface within body margin. Metathorax with microducts strewn within body margin on both surfaces and, on ventral surface, also more internally; a few ducts occurring within body margin a little thicker than microducts scattered around them (Takagi 2024).
• Biology: Females and males occurring on leaves, and exclusively on the undersurface, females mainly along the veins (Takagi 2024).
• General Remarks: Description and illustration of adult female and second instar male; description of first instar nymph by Takagi (2024).

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