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Discochiton paucipedis Hodgson, 2018 (Coccidae: Discochiton)

Discochiton paucipedis Hodgson 2018: 54-56. Type data: INDIA: S. Arcoth, on Calophyllum, by Ramakrishna. Holotype, female, by original designation Type depository: London: The Natural History Museum, England, UK; accepted valid name Notes: Paratype ff: India: top label: Discochiton / paucipedis / Hodgson / Paratype ff; bottom label: Lecanium / (Paralecanium) / expansum, Green / from Calophyllum, / Puri, Orissa, India / ex.coll. Ind. Mus. / # 50 (BMNH): Illustr.

Families: 1 | Genera: 1

Countries: 1

Systematics: Adult females of D. paucipedis are very similar to those of D. expansum but differ as follows (character-states for D. expansum in brackets): (i) legs developed sufficiently to have a coxa and trochanter plus other segments fused (reduced to single-segmented leg stubs); (ii) spiracles significantly larger, each 60–66 μm wide (only 40–48 μm wide), and (iii) with many more preopercular pores, particularly associated with the more anterior clear areas (less so on specimens from Ponnuthu; absent on D. expansum) The specimen from Ponnuthu had significantly better developed legs than those of the type series and also had no preopercular pores associated with CA1 but, as all other characters were very similar, it is here considered to be conspecific with the type series. In showing some segmentation in the legs, adult females of D. paucipedis also resemble those of D. crenulatum but the latter species has much broader spiracular disc-pore bands, each 3 or more pores wide (only 1–2 pores wide in D. paucipedis), and preopercular pores are only associated with CA1 (at least associated with CA3 and CA4 on D. paucipedis).
Structure: Slide-mounted adult female. Body almost round. Length 4.0–6.0 [6.4] mm, width 4.2–5.6 [6.2] mm. (Hodgson & Williams, 2018)
General Remarks: Detailed description and illustration in Hodgson & Williams, 2018.

HodgsoWi2018: description, diagnosis, distribution, host, illustration, key, taxonomy, 54-56