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Chortinaspis tianmuensis Wei & Feng, 2011 (Diaspididae: Chortinaspis)

Chortinaspis tianmuensis Wei & Feng 2011: 166-167. Type data: CHINA: Zhejiang, Tianmu Mountain, on (Dracaena angustifolia 7/15/1983, by H. Jiang. Holotype, female, by original designation Type depository: Yangling: Entomological Museum, Northwestern Agricultural University, Shaanxi Province, China.; accepted valid name Notes: 2 paratypes with same data as holotype (EMNA) Illustr.

Families: 1 | Genera: 1

Countries: 1

WeiFe2011: pp.166-167 ( Adult (F) ) [Key to species of the genus Chortinaspis all of the world]

Systematics: C. tianmuensis is very close to C. senapirensis in having 1) 3 pairs of pygidial lobes and 2) an absence of notches on the pygidial lobes, but it differs in having 1) 4-6 plates with divided apices lateral to L2, but (C. senapirensis has 3 or 4 plates, each rather pointed; and 2) dorsal ducts arranged irregularly, present along submargin and margin of abdominal segment I-VIII, but present in C. senapirensis along the submargin and margin of segment VI to the metathorax. (Wei & Feng, 2011)
Structure: Female scale circular, slightly convex; brown with black center, exuvia central. Slide mounted female derm remaining membraneous apart from sclerotized margin of pygidium. Pygidial margin with 3 paris of well-developed lobes. Prevulvar pores absent. Antennae with one seta. (Wei & Feng, 2011)
General Remarks: Detailed description and illustration in Wei & Feng, 2011.

WeiFe2011: description, distribution, host, illustration, structure, taxonomy, 166-167