Valid Names Results

Kyphosoma Takagi, 1993 (Diaspididae)

Kyphosoma Takagi 1993: 8. Type species: Kyphosoma kinabaluense Takagi by original designation . accepted valid name

Systematics: Subfamily DIASPIDINAE Tribe DIASPIDINI Subtribe CHIONASPIDINA (Normark, et al., 2019)
Structure: Adult female elongate, plump, humpbacked at full growth, being abruptly swollen dorsally in thorax and then gradually decreasing in height posteriorly. Pygidium with 2 pairs of pectinae; median pectinae widely separated from each other, lateral pair duplex. Gland spines occurring along margin in a segmentally interrupted row. Macroducts strewn dorsally on pygidium and laterally to the row of gland spines. Test highly convex dorsally, with secretory part compressed (Takagi, 1993).

Takagi1993: pp.23 ( Adult (F) ) [A tentative key to the genera of the subtribe Protodiaspidina]