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Agrophaspis ansevatae Hardy & Williams, 2018 (Diaspididae: Agrophaspis)

Agrophaspis ansevatae Hardy & Williams 2018: 13. Type data: NEW CALEDONIA: shore south of Anse Vata, Noumea, on undetermined tree, 8/17/1963, by S.W. Brown. Holotype, female, by original designation Type depository: Washington: United States National Entomological Collection, U.S. National Museum of Natural History, District of Columbia, USA; accepted valid name Notes: Paratypes: New Caledonia: 1 adult female, same data as holotype; exuviae of 1 second-instar: on same slide as holotype, SWB accession 252 (USNM). Illustr.

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Systematics: http://zoobank.org/53E449E7-B273-4070-B311-1059062CDFC1 The adult female shares several traits with the adult of A. buxtoni; both lack perivulvar and spiracular pores. Most strikingly, they both lack typical lobes and plates on the pygidium, and have in their place long, tapering caudal projections. In A. buxtoni there are seven, and each is bifid or trifid. In A. ansevatae there are four. On the holotype, at least one of these also appears to have a slightly bifid apex. The puparia are also similar, but in A. ansevatae the diameter of the anus is less than the width of L1, whereas in A. buxtoni it is greater than the width of L1.
Structure: Pupillarial. Mounted female body 0.38–0.49 mm long, broadest at anterior abdominal segments (0.36–0.46 mm); outline roughly triangular, posterior margin truncate, thorax and head tapering anteriorly. Pygidium truncate, with four long tapering caudal projections, lacking typical lobes and plates. Puparium (cuticle of second-instar female): Pygidium with three pairs of lobes, medial lobes each with lateral and medial notch, second and third lobes each with lateral notch; fringed plates between lobes. Macroducts one-barred. (Hardy & Williams, 2018)
General Remarks: Detailed description and illustration in Hardy & Williams, 2018.

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