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Dentachionaspis lounsburyi (Leonardi, 1914) (Diaspididae: Dentachionaspis)

Dinaspis lounsburyi Leonardi 1914: 216-218. Type data: SOUTH AFRICA: Pretoria, on undetermined host. Syntypes, female, Type depository: Portici: Dipartimento de Entomologia e Zoologia Agraria di Portici, Universita di Napoli Federico II, Italy; accepted valid name Illustr.
Chionaspis capensis Newstead 1917: 378. Type data: SOUTH AFRICA: Pretoria, on Acacia sp., 1914, by de Charmoy. Syntypes, female, Type depository: London: The Natural History Museum, England, UK; junior synonym (discovered by Hall1946a, 512).
Chionaspis (Dinaspis) lounsburyi (Leonardi, 1914); Brain 1920: 101. change of combination
Dentachionaspis capensis (Newstead, 1917); MacGillivray 1921: 358. change of combination
Dentachionaspis lounsburyi (Leonardi, 1914); Hall 1946a: 513, 550. change of combination

Families: 2 | Genera: 2

Countries: 2

Hall1946a: pp.513 ( Adult (F) ) [Key to species of Dentachionaspis]
Maleno1916b: pp.193 ( Adult (F) ) [Key to Dinaspis] Key as: Dinaspis lounsburyi

Structure: Female scale white, first exuviae bronze to bronze-brown; second exuviae brown, slightly pointed behind. Scale of adult female about 2 mm long, elongate, generally straight, but varying in shape according to the position on the plant, condition of crowding etc. Puparium of male about 0.8 mm long, white, non-carinated, with orange pellicles (Brain, 1920).
Biology: Adult female viviparous (Brain, 1920).
General Remarks: Best description and illustration by Leonardi (1914).