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Fernaldanna whita Hardy & Williams, 2018 (Diaspididae: Fernaldanna)

Fernaldanna whita Hardy & Williams 2018: 17. Type data: NEW CALEDONIA: Whita River area, 9/05/1963, by S.W. Brown. Holotype, female, by original designation Type depository: Washington: United States National Entomological Collection, U.S. National Museum of Natural History, District of Columbia, USA; accepted valid name Illustr.

Systematics: http://zoobank.org/7947E043-AB40-498D-A6B5-134FF317825B The genus Fernaldanna MacGillivrary (1921), previously contained only the type species F. indentata (Green), described from Australia on an unidentified host. The pygidium of the adult female of the type species shares several features with that of F. whita: (1) few or no plates; (2) two pairs of lobes, L1 with rounded apex, L2 broader than long and much broader than L1; (3) one marginal macroduct between L1 and L2, one at lateral base of L2, and a few more anterior. In F. indentata pygidial plates are completely absent; in F. whita there is just one plate laterad of L2. Both species have pores near the anterior spiracle, but only F. whita has pervivular pores. The adult female of F. indentata is pupillarial. We are not sure if the same is true of F. whita. (Hardy & Williams, 2018)
Structure: Body of adult female holotype 0.84 mm long, broadest at metathorax (0.28 mm); body outline elongate. Pygidium longer than wide; with two distinct lobes on each side. Median lobes wider than long, each with slightly rounded apex. L2 much wider (~2×) than L1. (Hardy & Williams, 2018)
General Remarks: Detailed description and illustration in Hardy & Williams, 2018.

HardyWi2018: description, diagnosis, distribution, illustration, taxonomy, 17, 19-21