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Dentachionaspis margaritae (Brain, 1919) (Diaspididae: Dentachionaspis)

Chionaspis margaritae Brain 1919: 231. Type data: SOUTH AFRICA: on Aloe sp.. Syntypes, female, Type depository: Washington: United States National Entomological Collection, U.S. National Museum of Natural History, District of Columbia, USA; accepted valid name Illustr.
Duplachionaspis margaritae (Brain, 1919); MacGillivray 1921: 336. change of combination
Dentachionaspis margaritae (Brain, 1919); Hall 1946a: 513. change of combination

Families: 1 | Genera: 1

Families: 2 | Genera: 3

Countries: 2

Hall1946a: pp.513 ( Adult (F) ) [Key to species of Dentachionaspis]
MacGil1921: pp.336 ( Adult (F) ) [Species of Duplachionaspis] Key as: Duplachionaspis margaritae

Systematics: Dentachionaspis margaritae differs from D. lounsburyi in having five well developed groups of perivulvar pores (Hall, 1946a).
Structure: Scale of adult female about 2.5 mm long, moderately broad and convex, white, very smooth and glossy or pearly in appearance with brownish exuviae. Second exuviae sometimes only slightly covered (Brain, 1919).
General Remarks: Best description and illustration by Brain (1919).