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Dactylaspis lobata Ferris, 1937 (Diaspididae: Dactylaspis)

Dactylaspis lobata Ferris 1937: SI-30. Type data: UNITED STATES: Texas, Brownsville, on Celtis mississippiensis, 1921, by G.F. Ferris. Holotype, female, Type depository: Davis: The Bohart Museum of Entomology, University of California, California, USA; accepted valid name Notes: Paratype in TAMU (McDaniel, 1971). Illustr.

Families: 2 | Genera: 3

Countries: 2

Systematics: Dactylaspis lobata is rather intermediate between D. dactylifera and D. calcarata, being separable from the former chiefly by the presence of pronounced, cylindrical lobes at the anterior-lateral angles of abdominal segments 2-5, but these lobes bearing several small ducts instead of the single large duct which is borne by them in D. calcarata. Thoracic region not sclerotized at maturity. Leg vestiges lacking. Small, sclerotic spurs present on the margins of the prepygidial abdominal segments as in D. dactylifera, and the gland spines approaching those of the latter species in conspicuousness. Marginal ducts of the pygidium lacking or very small. Median lobes close together, 2nd lobes barely indicated, 3rd lobes perhaps slightly indicated by sclerotized points (Ferris, 1937).
General Remarks: Best description and illustration by Ferris (1937).