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Aonidia montikoghis Hardy & Williams, 2018 (Diaspididae: Aonidia)

Nomenclatural History

• Aonidia montikoghis Hardy & Williams 2018: 15. Type data: NEW CALEDONIA: Mt. Koghis [Mt.Koghia (sic)], on?Metrosideros sp., 10/5/1978, by J.S. Dugdale. Holotype, female, by original designation Type depository: London: The Natural History Museum, England, UK; accepted valid name Notes: Paratypes: New Caledonia: 3 adult females and exuviae of 3 second-instars (i.e., puparia) on five slides: same data as holotype, BM 19 13 (NHMUK, USNM, MNHN). Illustr.

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Families: 1 | Genera: 1

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Remarks

• Systematics: http://zoobank.org/821958F8-75E4-4DA3-9E25-E76087B4DC8D The adult female of A. montikoghis shows little that can be used to make a generic assignment. The second-instar female / puparium is of more use. The pygidium of the second-instar female is most similar to that of the Australian species Alioides tuberculatus (Laing). That also has (1) a triangular carina diverging from the inner edges of the medial lobes, (2) only the medial pygidial lobes present, (3) twobarred marginal macroducts, each stemming from a distinct pore process, and (4) no other dorsal macroducts on the pygidium (Brimblecombe 1958). The adult female of A. tuberculatus is not pupillarial, but unpublished DNA-sequenced based phlogeny estimates recover Alioides nested within the pupillarial genus Aonidia (B. Normark pers. comm.). Thus, Aonidia seems to be the best fit for this species. (Hardy & Williams, 2018)
• Structure: Pupillarial. Mounted female body 0.48–0.51 mm long, broadest at anterior abdominal segments (0.28–0.31 mm); outline roughly fusiform, posterior margin truncate. Pygidium without differentiated lobes. Dorsum of pygidium becoming more sclerotic from anterior to posterior end, membranous patches of cuticle in anterior half, narrow linear furrows of membranous cuticle near and perpendicular to posterior margin. Anus circular (~ 11 μm in diameter), near anterior edge of the pygidium. No ducts detected. Venter of pygidium with vulva in anterior half. No perivulvar pores. A few setae scatted along dorsal and ventral submargin and medial areas. Puparium (cuticle of second-instar female). Pygidium with only medial lobes, each with lateral notch on apex. Anus circular in anterior half of pygidium. (Hardy & Williams, 2018)
• General Remarks: Detailed description and illustration in Hardy & Williams, 2018.

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