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Contigaspis farsetiae (Hall, 1926) (Diaspididae: Contigaspis)

Nomenclatural History

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Ecological Associates

Hosts:

Families: 10 | Genera: 15

Geographic Distribution

Countries: 9

Keys

  • MoghadWa2021: pp.67 ( Adult (F) ) [Contigaspis in Iran]
  • BazaroSh1971: pp.88 ( Adult (F) ) [Key to species of Contigaspis] Key as: Contigaspis artemisiae

Remarks

  • Systematics: Hall (1926a) states that this unusually large species is easily recognizable both alive and mounted and is quite unlike other Egyptian species.
  • Structure: Scale of female white or grayish, 1.2mm long and .6-.9mm wide. Dark raspberry in color. Pygidium widely rounded off; lobes of the pygidium large, apex of lobes blunt, outer margin of the lobes with deep incision joined at the base by the inner margin of the lobes. Cylindrical glands on both aspects of the pygidium in groups along the margin and arranged in irregular sometimes double rows (Borchsenius, 1949c). Adult female scale cover convex, mytiliform or nearly circular; white or greyish, with terminal brown exuviae. Male scale cover parallel-sided. Slide-mounted adult female mytiliform to oval, membranous. Antennae each with 3 or 4 bristle-like setae. Anterior spiracles each associated with 3–9 disc pores; posterior spiracles each with 3 or 4 pores. Pygidium broadly rounded, with a pair of large median lobes (L1) parallel or slightly convergent, set close together and fused for a short distance at their bases, each lobe rounded apically, with a single notch on outer margin(Moghaddam & Watson, 2021)
  • General Remarks: Detailed description and illustration by Borchsenius (1949c).

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