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Keralaspis piperis Takagi, 2007 (Diaspididae: Keralaspis)

Keralaspis piperis Takagi 2007a. Type data: INDIA: Bharat, Kerala, Periyar Tiger Reserve, on Piper sp., 12/19/1978.. Holotype, female, male, and first instar, Type depository: Calcutta: National Zoological Collection, Zoological Survey of India, India; Shanghai: Shanghai Institute of Plant Physiology and Ecology, Chinese Academy of Sciences, China ; accepted valid name Notes: Altitude about 900 meters. Illustr.

Families: 1 | Genera: 1

Countries: 1

Systematics: Female and male tests occurring on the undersurface of leaves. Female test nearly rounded, moderately convex dorsally, white, with exuvial casts of margin. Male test of which 4 are teneral.
Structure: Adult female body growing oblong with free segments moderately lobed. Median trullae separated from each other by a space as wide as one of them, divergent, elongate and finely serate on mesal margin or around apex. Marginal gland spines slender; 2 between trullae. Marginal macroducts are not completely diffentiated. Especially on the third and abdominal segments, the marginal macroducts and the segmental submarginal macroducts form dontinuous series. On these segments, therefore, the marginal macroducts have been discriminated from the submarginal macroducts rather arbitrarily and their numbers counted are not stable. Second instar female fusiform with 5 marginal macroducts on abd III-VII. and 3 submarginal macroducts on abd IV-VI on each side. first-instar female broadly ovoid. Head with a pair of enlarged dorsal ducts. Antennae 6 segmented, terminal segment annulate, as long as segments III-V combined; segment III longer than each of II and IV. Second instar male similar to adult female in apical area of pygidium, but median trullae separated from each other by a sace much wider than in the adult female. Short gland spines occurring between median trullae.
General Remarks: Detailed description and illustrations in Takagi, 2007a.

Takagi2007a: description, distribution, host, illustration, structure, taxonomy, 70-71