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Davidsonaspis tovomitae Wei, Schneider, Normark & Normark, 2021 (Diaspididae: Davidsonaspis)

Davidsonaspis Daud3919 Schneider, et al. 2018: 291–303. nomen nudum
Davidsonaspis undescr Noramark, et al. 2019. nomen nudum
Davidsonaspis tovomitae Wei, Schneider, Normark & Normark 2021: 8-10. Type data: PANAMA: Parque Nacional San Lorenzo Canopy Crane, Colón (9.2802°N, 79.9754°W); on Tovomita longifolia; 6/12/2012, by GE Morse & BB Normark. Holotype, female, by original designation Type depository: Panama: Museo de Invertebrados G. B. Fairchild, Panamá City, Panamá; accepted valid name Notes: Paratype: Panama • 1 adult female; Parque Nacional San Lorenzo Canopy Crane, Colón; 9.2802°N, 79.9754°W; 15.i.2015; DA Peterson, GE Morse, H Shapiro, S Trujillo leg.; on Tovomita longifolia

Families: 1 | Genera: 1

Families: 1 | Genera: 1

Countries: 1

Systematics: http://.org/EE712529-F0A9-4EAA-AB50-20F29BB27DF7
The only other known species in this genus is Davidsonaspis aguacatae (Evans, Watson, and Miller), found on avocados in Mexico. This new species can be distinguished from D. aguacatae in having a series of 3 plates anterior to L3, each as broad as L3 and elaborately fringed on apical and lateral margins; in D. aguacatae, plates anterior to L3 are narrower than L3 and only slightly fringed. D. tovomitae otherwise closely resembles D. aguacatae, and the two species form a clade. The structure we refer to as a faux duct orifice anteriad of L1 is illustrated by Evans et al. (2009) but not mentioned in their description. In one of their 2 illustrations of the pygidium of D. aguacatae the structure is shown with a central dot, as if it were the circular base of a seta, but in D. tovomitae no seta is present there. (Wei, et al., 2021)
Structure: Adult female not pupillarial. Slide-mounted adult female 870–1060 μm long, 670–790 μm wide, broadest at mesothorax. Body outline broadly obovate. Antennae simple, each with one conspicuous long seta. Distance between antennae 160 μm. Without any disc pores associated with anterior or posterior spiracles. (Wei, et al., 2021)
General Remarks: Detailed description and illustration in Wei, et al., 2021.

WeiScNo2021: DNA, diagnosis, distribution, genebank, host, illustration, key, taxonomy, 8-11, 20