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Diaspis brevinatis Ferris, 1941 (Diaspididae: Diaspis)

Diaspis brevinatis Ferris 1941d: SIII-276. Type data: PANAMA: Chiriqui Province, Boquete, on Byrsonima crassifolia, 1938, by G.F. Ferris. Holotype, female, Type depository: Davis: The Bohart Museum of Entomology, University of California, California, USA; accepted valid name Illustr.

Families: 1 | Genera: 1

Countries: 1

Systematics: Diaspis brevinatis is readily recognized by its huge and projecting median lobes, the reduction of other lobes, the few dorsal ducts and the shortness of the pygidium (Ferris, 1941d).
Structure: Female scale white, moderately convex, roughly circular or oval, the first exuviae alone or exposed, pale. Male scale almost non-carinate. Adult female about 0.75 mm long, almost circular, pygidium projecting only a little (Ferris, 1941d).
General Remarks: Best description and illustration by Ferris (1941d).