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Dentaspis rugosa Hall, 1946 (Diaspididae: Dentaspis)

Dentaspis rugosa Hall 1946: 62-64. Type data: UGANDA: on unknown host, by G.H.E. Hopkins. Syntypes, female, Type depository: London: The Natural History Museum, England, UK; accepted valid name Illustr.

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Systematics: Dentaspis rugosa is close to D. substriata, but differs in having 5 groups of perivulvar pores, gland spines of the pygidial fringe of a different form, more numerous dorsal pores, and the median lobes being more widely set apart (Hall, 1946).
Structure: Scale of adult female white, so highly convex as to be almost globular, but somewhat compressed laterally. Secretionary appendix with regular transverse corrugations and of a felted, rather soft, nature. Larval exuviae golden, nymphal exuviae pale. Ventral scale persisting round the margin in the anterior region. Male scale white, parallel-sided, with golden exuviae, uncarinated. Adult female broadly pyriform, sharply narrowed anteriorly, globose and membranous (Hall, 1946).
General Remarks: Best description and illustration by Hall (1946).