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Diaspis conocarpi McKenzie, 1947 (Diaspididae: Diaspis)

Diaspis conocarpi McKenzie 1947b: 110. Type data: MEXICO: Oaxaca, Salina Cruz, on Conocarpus sp., 1926, 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 conocarpi closely resembles D. texensis, but may be differentiated from it by having fewer pygidial macroducts, not counting the large marginal ones, numbering 25 or less, by the presence of a few scattered minute submarginal ducts on the first abdominal segment, meta and a portion of mesothorax, these lacking in D. texensis, and the lateral spur on pygidial margin broad at base and tapering to a sharp point as compared to a blunt spur in D. texensis (McKenzie, 1947b).
Structure: Female scale almost circular, about 1.25 mm in diameter, yellowish brown, exuviae subcentral or quite near one end. Male scale elongate and somewhat lighter in color, exuviae near one end (McKenzie, 1947b).
General Remarks: Best description and illustration by McKenzie (1947b).