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Chionandaspis foliicola Takagi, 2003 (Diaspididae: Chionandaspis)

Chionandaspis foliicola Takagi 2003: 77-78. Type data: MALAYSIA: Sarawak, Kuching district, Santubong (Damai Beach). Holotype, female, by original designation Type depository: Kepong: Forest Research Institute of Malaysia, Selandgor, Malaysia; accepted valid name

Families: 1 | Genera: 1

Countries: 1

Systematics: Chionandaspis foliicola differs remarkably from Chionandaspis ramicola in the shape ofthe pygidium, which is excavated subapically, but it does resemble the latter species in the details of the pygidial apex and the dorsal macroducts. These species are also very similar in the second-instar males. (Takagi, 2003)
Structure: Body elongate; meso- and metathoarx and abd I-III lobed laterally, metathorax and abd I and II being especially strongly produced; pygidium obdeltate, produced apically so abruptly as to appear excavated subapically. (Takagi, 2003)
Biology: Females occurring on the upper surface ofthe leaves, burrowing under a thin epidermal layer; tests thin and white, looking pale brownish through the epidermal layer. Males occurring on the lower surface of the leaves; tests white, made of fluffy wax. (Takagi, 2003)
General Remarks: Detailed description and illustration in Takagi, 2003.

Takagi2003: description, distribution, host, illustration, physiology, taxonomy, 77, 107, 123-124