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Greeniella dacrydiae Hardy & Williams, 2018 (Diaspididae: Greeniella)

Greeniella dacrydiae Hardy & Williams 2018: 25. Type data: NEW CALEDONIA: 5 miles north of Yaté Dam Lake, on Dacrydium araucarioides, 4/5/1963, 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 Notes: Paratype: New Caledonia: 1 second-instar exuviae: on same slide as holotype, Illustr.

Families: 1 | Genera: 1

Countries: 1

Systematics: http://zoobank.org/50D7573E-59B7-4901-8F77-EE3EB25290AD The adult female of G. dacrydiae can be easily distinguished from those of other described species by the ~20 papilliform projects along the truncate posterior margin of the pygidium. (Hardy & Williams, 2018)
Structure: Adult female body broadest at meta-thorax and anterior abdominal segments; body outline ovoid, with slight constriction at head. Pygidium truncate, without dorsal macroducts, or typical lobes and plates; with ~20 short papilliform projections. Anus circular, in anterior half of pygidium. Venter with vulva in posterior half, well behind anus. Perivulvar pores absent. Microducts scattered along posterior margin and submedial areas. Second-instar female. Pygidium with three lobes on each side; L1 longer than wide, parallel-sided, apex oblique; L2 and L3 sub-triangular, with oblique caudal edge, medial margin much longer than lateral margin. Two simple gland spines in each interlobal space, and lateral of L3. (Hardy & Williams, 2018)
General Remarks: Detailed description and illustration in Hardy & Williams.

HardyWi2018: description, diagnosis, distribution, host, illustration, taxonomy, 25-27