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Andaspis yunnanensis Ferris, 1953 (Diaspididae: Andaspis)

Andaspis yunnanensis Ferris 1953: 59-60. Type data: CHINA: Yunnan, Kunming, American Consulate, on Prunus sp., 23/04/1949, by G.F. Ferris. Holotype, female, Type depository: Davis: The Bohart Museum of Entomology, University of California, California, USA; accepted valid name Illustr.
Raoaspis yunnanensis (Ferris, 1953); Borchsenius 1967: 729. change of combination Notes: Takagi (1970) synonymized the genus Raoaspis Borchsenius with Andaspis MacGillivray creating the combination Andaspis yunnanensis.

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Structure: Female scale very small, barely 2.0 mm, elongate and quite slender, brown, covered by a slight film of wax at times appears white and in general the scales match the host bark. Male scale similar, but smaller. Adult female 1.0 mm long, body slender and elongate, membranous throughout except for pygidium, the lateral lobes of abdomen, but little developed. Pygidium rounded apically, the median lobes relatively large and with a pair of gland spines between them, each lobe with the outer margin quite strongly notched and with the apex truncate, although some specimens are apically rounded. 2nd lobes very small, definitely bilobed, the outer lobule very small and acute. 3rd lobes indicated merely by a slight projection (Ferris, 1953).
General Remarks: Detailed description and illustration by Ferris (1953).