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Diaspis fraxini Ferris, 1937 (Diaspididae: Diaspis)

Diaspis fraxini Ferris 1937: SI-37. Type data: MEXICO: Sonora, near Imuris, near Magdalena River, on Fraxinus toumeyi, ?/05/1934, by G.F. Ferris. Syntypes, 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: Diaspsis fraxini most closely resembles D. townsendi, from which it differs in the even greater reduction of the second and third pygidial lobes and in the absence of submedian pore groups on the prepygidial abdominal segments (Ferris, 1937).
Structure: Female scale white, somewhat oval and irregular, moderately convex; exuviae submarginal. Adult female prosoma without lateral lobes; median pygidial lobes large and prominent, somewhat divergent and forming a slight median notch (Ferris, 1937).
General Remarks: Best description and illustration by Ferris (1937).