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Albastaspis bunubunuensis Wei, Normark, & Normark, 2026 (Diaspididae: Albastaspis)

Nomenclatural History

• Albastaspis bunubunuensis Wei, Normark, & Normark 2026: 27. Type data: AUSTRALIA: New South Wales, Carrolls Creek (28.8393° S, 152.0953° E), on Allocasuarina littoralis, 06/02/2007, by JC Andersen & B. B. Normark. Holotype, female, Type depository: Canberra: Australian National Insect Collection, CSIRO Entomology, Australia; accepted valid name Notes: Paratypes: 1 adult female (D2116A) (UMEC), 1 adult female (D2116B) (USNM), same data as holotype. Illustr.

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Ecological Associates

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Families: 1 | Genera: 1

Geographic Distribution

Keys

• WeiNoNo2026: pp.30-36 ( Adult (F) ) [species of Fioriniina in Australia]

Remarks

• Systematics: ZooBank: https://zoobank.org/C11A390C-7A07-4650-9A3D-95D2A6928ADB GenBank accession numbers KY219543 (D2116A), KY219544 (D2116B), and the small ribosomal subunit (16S) of the primary endosymbiont (Uzinura diaspidicola), KY220399 (D2116B).

  The projecting, serrate, apically pointed L1 are distinctive. A. bunubunuensis resembles A. neocasuarinae in having serrate L1 and dermal spines on the thorax, but differs in lacking pores by the posterior spiracle (pores present in A. neocasuarinae), having L1 about as long as wide and projecting from body margin (L1 wider than long and sunk into notch in body margin in A. neocasuarinae), and body elongate, over 3 times as long as wide (body broadly ovate, less than twice as long as wide in A. neocasuarinae). A. bunubunuensis resembles A. kamberra in having serrate L1, but differs in having L1 projecting from the body margin with parallel axes (L1 sunken into shallow notch in body margin, divergent, in A. kamberra), dermal spines on thorax (absent in A. kamberra), and gland spine adjacent to L1 more than twice as long as L1 (gland spine adjacent to L1 about as long as L1 in A. kamberra). A. bunubunuensis resembles A. xanthorrhoeae in having acute L1 and dermal spines on the thorax but differs in having L1 serrate and projecting from the body margin (L1 mostly entire and sunk into a notch in body margin in A. xanthorrhoeae). A. bunubunuensis resembles A. nivea in having apically pointed L1, but differs in having L1 serrate (L1 with 1 notch in A. nivea), dermal spines on the thorax (absent in A. nivea), and simple antennae (antennae in A. nivea thornlike, with broad base and conical projection). (Wei, Normark & Normark, 2026)

• Structure: Adult female with linear scale cover. Slide-mounted adult female 1000–1500 μm long , 400–430 μm wide . Body outline elongate-oval, widest at abdominal segment I or II. Derm remaining membranous, except on pygidium. (Wei, Normark & Normark, 2026)
• General Remarks: Detailed description and illustration in Wei, Normark & Normark, 2026.

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