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Diaspis digna Hoke, 1928 (Diaspididae: Diaspis)

Diaspis dignus Hoke 1928: 671-672. Type data: UNITED STATES: Mississippi, Round Island, on Eryngium aquaticum, 30/09/1927, by G.H. Lobdell. Holotype, female, Type depository: Mississippi State (Starkeville): Mississippi Entomological Museum, Mississippi State University, Mississippi, USA.; accepted valid name Notes: Paratypes in USNM. Illustr.
Diaspis digna Hoke, 1928; Miller, D.R., Gimpel, M.E. & Williams, D.J. 2003: 946. emendation that is justified

Families: 1 | Genera: 1

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Systematics: Diaspsis dignus is similar to D. bromeliae, but differs in the smaller size and fewer dorsal pores, slighter and more lightly chitinized median lobes, more slender pore and duct between median lobes (Hoke, 1928).
Structure: Female scale white, often tinged with yellow near center, 1.24-1.46 mm long, 0.9-1.0 mm wide, thin, slightly convex; exuviae central or subcentral, first superimposed on anterior half of second, shiny straw colored with secretion removed, secretion easily rubbed off, ventral scale a mere film. Adult female membranous except small portions of pygidium (Hoke, 1928).
General Remarks: Descriptions and illustrations by Hoke (1928) and Ferris (1937).