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Chionaspis kinabaluana Takagi, 2019 (Diaspididae: Chionaspis)

Chionaspis kinabaluana Takagi 2019: 44. Type data: BORNEO: Sabah, Mt. Kinabalu, alt. ca. 1500m, on Lithocarpus sp., 10/13/1988, by S. Takagi. Holotype, female, by original designation Type depository: Kepong: Forest Research Institute of Malaysia, Selandgor, Malaysia; accepted valid name

Families: 1 | Genera: 1

Countries: 1

Structure: Adult female. Body growing to be much elongated and nearly parallel-sided, becoming about thrice as long as wide. Interantennal swelling frequently discernible. Anterior spiracles each with a few or several disc pores; posterior spiracles each with 1 or 2 disc pores, at times with none. Tests were thin. (Takagi, 2019a) The second instar male of C. kinabaluana is provided with a continuous series of well-developed pectinate processes around the margin of, presumably, the fourth to eighth abdominal segments. (Takagi, 2019a)
Biology: Females and males occurring on the lower surface of leaves; females burrowing under a thin upper layer of the epidermis, Some individuals of both sexes were found on the upper surface of leaves, on which the females did not appear to be burrowing. (Takagi 2019a)
General Remarks: Detailed description and illustration in Takagi, 2019a.

Takagi2019a: description, diagnosis, distribution, host, illustration, key, male, taxonomy, 44-45, 49, 50-55, 69, 77