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Andaspis ambigua (Brain, 1920) (Diaspididae: Andaspis)

Chionaspis ambiguus Brain 1920: 97-98. Type data: SOUTH AFRICA: Fort Beaufort, on lilac, ?/06/1913, by C.P. Lounsbury. Lectotype, female, by subsequent designation (Muntin1970a,36). Type depository: Pretoria: South African National Collection of Insects, South Africa; accepted valid name Illustr.
Unachionaspis ambigua (Brain, 1920); MacGillivray 1921: 337. change of combination
Chionaspis ambigua (MacGillivray, 1921); Lindinger 1932f: 196. emendation that is unjustified
Andaspis ambigua (Brain, 1920); Borchsenius 1966: 70. change of combination

Families: 2 | Genera: 2

Countries: 2

MacGil1921: pp.337 ( ) [Species of Unachionaspis] Key as: Unachionaspis ambigua

Systematics: This species is similar to Andaspis antidesmae, but can be distinguished from it in length of the dorsal setae between the median lobes, the shape of the scleroses at the basal angles of these lobes and by the presence A. ambigua of a normal macroduct between the first two large marginal ducts. A. ambigua differs from A. kashicola in having more submedian macroducts on segment (vi) and in the absence of a distinctly sclerotized transverse bar at the base of the median lobes (Munting, 1967a).
Structure: Scale of adult female elongate, narrow in front, broadly rounded behind, usually curved, arched, 2.3mm long, somewhat covered by outer bark tissues. Color pale to dark brown, with a greyish surface covering; exuviae yellow. Body of adult female elongate, broadest just behind middle, anterior end tapering slightly and broadly rounded in front, posterior end tapering abruptly to the two densely chitinous median lobes (Brain, 1920).
Biology: Brain (1920) reported that a large percentage of the scale showed the circular exit holes of some Hymenopterous parasite.
General Remarks: Description and illustration by Brain (1920).