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Anapulvinaria Borchsenius, 1952 (Coccidae)

Anapulvinaria Borchsenius 1952a: 300. Type species: Pulvinaria pistaciae Bodenheimer by monotypy and original designation . accepted valid name

Systematics: Subfamily: Coccinae. Tribe: Pulvinariini. Ben-Dov (1993) regarded this genus as a subjective synonym of Pulvinaria.
Structure: Live adult female broadly oval to circular with fairly short anal cleft, dorsum slightly convex; secreting a large, flat, elliptical ovisac. Slide-mounted, body with spiracular pore bands narrow, stigmatic clefts not developed. Stigmatic setae sometimes slightly differentiated, bluntly spinose, of similar lengths, subequal with or shorter than marginal setae, numbering 0−2 per stigmatic area. Marginal setae bluntly spinose, sometimes slightly curved. Dorsal setae slender to strongly conical or absent. Preopercular pores absent. Dorsal tubular ducts each with inner ductule ending with a large terminal gland. Ventral tubular ducts abundant throughout. Legs well developed; each claw without a denticle. Anal plates together approximately quadrate, but with outer angles rounded and posterolateral margins convex (Moghaddam & Watson 2024).
General Remarks: Definition and characters given by Borchsenius (1952a; 1957), Hadzibejli (1983), Tang (1991) and by Hodgson (1994a).