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Hemiberlesia musae Takagi & Yamamoto, 1974 (Diaspididae: Hemiberlesia)

Hemiberlesia (Abgrallaspis) musae Takagi & Yamamoto 1974: 37. Type data: ECUADOR: intercepted at quarantine at Kobe, Japan, on banana.. Holotype, female, Type depository: Sapporo: Entomological Institute, Faculty of Agriculture, Hokkaido University, Japan; accepted valid name Illustr.

Families: 6 | Genera: 6

Countries: 3

WeiScNo2021: pp.17-23 ( Adult (F) ) [Aspidiotini from Panama]
NormarMoKr2014: pp.46-47 ( Adult (F) ) [Modifications to Ferris's 1942 key to the species of North American Hemiberlesia to include both South American and North American species]

Systematics: This species is very close to and almost coincident in the pygidial fringe with Hemiberlesia [Abgrallaspis] gliwicensis described by Komosinska (1965) from greenhouses in Poland, but is distinguishable by lacking perivulvar disc pores and by some minor differences. It is also similar to Hemiberlesia [Abgrallaspis] corporifusca and Hemiberlesia [Abgrallaspis] pictor, described by Chiesa Molinari (1963) from Argentina and by Williams (1971) from a nursery in England, respectively, but may be distinguishable from the latter two by the character of the macroducts. (Takagi & Yamamoto, 1974)
Structure: Takagi & Yamamoto (1974) did not describe the scale cover.
Economic Importance: Chua & Wood (1990) listed this species as a pest of banana in Ecuador.
General Remarks: Description and illustration of adult female by Takagi & Yamamoto (1974) and by Colon-Ferrer & Medina-Gaud (1998).