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Antonina thaiensis Takahashi, 1942 (Pseudococcidae: Antonina)

Antonina thaiensis Takahashi 1942b: 14. Type data: THAILAND: Bangkok, on bamboo. Syntypes, female, Type depository: Taichung: Entomology Collection, Taiwan Agricultural Research Institute, Wu-feng, Taichung, Taiwan; accepted valid name
Antonina zonata; Takahashi 1951a: 21. misidentification (discovered by Willia2004a, 78).

Families: 1 | Genera: 2

Families: 1 | Genera: 1

Countries: 6

Systematics: Williams (2004a) concluded that the record under Antonina zonata by Takahashi (1951a: 21) was a misidentification of Antonina thaienesis.
Structure: The live adult female is legless, brownish black, and partially covered with white wax, with a long slender white wax tube projecting from the anal opening. The live immature stages are red. (Sirisena, 2012) Adult female dark brown, partially covered in white wax on anterior end, abdominal dorsum without wax coating but body resting on a cushion of white wax, perhaps secreted by ventral dermal pores. Body elongate, almost parallel sided with rounded ends, and with a long white wax tube projecting from posterior end. Immature stages reddish brown. (Joshi, et al., 2022)
Biology: Adult females form dense colonies near the internodes of bamboos, usually inside the leaf sheaths. (Joshi, et al., 2022) Cytogenetic data. Lecanoid heterochromatinization; 2n = 22, 22+Bs. Cleavage cells of some embryos show 2 additional B-chromosomes which are also visible in the euchromatic haploid set in males. (Gavrilov-Zimin, 2016a)
General Remarks: Description and illustration of adult female by Williams (2004a).