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Coccidohystrix primigenia Gavrilov-Zimin, 2016 (Pseudococcidae: Coccidohystrix)

Coccidohystrix primigenia Gavrilov-Zimin 2016b. Type data: MADAGASCAR: Toliara Prov., Massif du Makay, 21°40′16′′ S / 44°59′22.5′′E, on leaves of Grewia triflora, 1/21/2011, by V.M. Gnezdilov. Holotype, female, by original designation Type depository: St. Petersburg: Zoological Museum, Academy of Science, Russia; accepted valid name Notes: Paratypes: six females with the same collecting data. Illustr.

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Systematics: http://zoobank.org/urn:lsid:zoobank.org:pub:BC2F3B54-AB5F-49E3-9998-E34A8E09D034 This species differs from all other species of the genus in the presence of both pairs of ostioles, trilocular pores in mamelons, different size of dorsal and ventral trilocular pores and presence of circuli. Two other peculiar characters, groups of multilocular pores on dorsum and different size of dorsal and ventral trilocular pores, additionally differ the new species from the second Madagascan endemic, C. madecassa Mamet, 1959.(Gavrilov-Zimin, 20116b)
Structure: Female. Body elongate oval, up to 4 mm long, white in ethanol. Antennae nine-segmented. Legs normally developed, without translucent pores; claw with a denticle. Anal apparatus complicated, with one inner row of pores, double outer row of spinulae and six long setae. Both pairs of ostioles well developed. Mamelons each with 2–14 enlarged conical setae, accompanied by trilocular and simple discoidal pores, forming transverse rows on each tergite of body. Conical setae of different size present on dorsum between mamelons. Ventral surface of body covered by flagellate setae of different size.Circuli oval, three in number. (Gavrilov-Zimin, 2016b)
General Remarks: Detailed description and illustration in Gavrilov, 2016b.