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

Aonidia pauca Hardy & Williams 2018: 17. Type data: NEW CALEDONIA: Mont D’Or, roadside fountain, on myrtaceous shrub, 8/24/1963, by S.W. Brown. Holotype, female, by original designation Type depository: Washington: United States National Entomological Collection, U.S. National Museum of Natural History, District of Columbia, USA; accepted valid name Notes: Paratypes: New Caledonia: 3 adult females (1 in mounting medium just outside of cover slip, on right side of slide), 1 second-instar, exuviae of 2 second-instars (i.e., puparia), and exuviae of two first-instars: ex unknown host, Yaté, 10.iv.2014, leg. S Cazères, 137-14, COCHE/34/14 (NHMUK). Illustr.

Countries: 1

Systematics: http://zoobank.org/49478016-4BCD-465A-A094-6D4BCFE06295 Like the adult female of A. montikoghis, that of A. pauca is bereft of many diagnostic characters. It can be easily distinguished from the former by having well-developed pygidial lobes and tilocular pores near the anterior spiracles. (Hardy & Williams, 2018)
Structure: Pupillarial.Adult female body 0.34–0.50 mm long, broadest at metathorax (0.18–0.27 mm); outline roughly fusiform, posterior margin truncate. Pygidium with 3–4 differentiated lobes on each side, but no plates or gland spines. Dorsum of pygidium more sclerotic on posterior than anterior end, membranous patches of cuticle in anterior half. Anus circular (~11 μm in diameter), near anterior edge of the pygidium. Second-instar female. Pygidium with only medial lobes, each with lateral notch. Anus circular in anterior half of pygidium. (Hardy & Williams, 2018)
General Remarks: Detailed description and illustration in Hardy & Williams, 2018.

HardyWi2018: description, diagnosis, distribution, genebank, illustration, taxonomy, 17-19