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Lepidosaphes froggatti Laing, 1929 (Diaspididae: Lepidosaphes)

Mytilaspis chitinosa Froggatt 1914: 607. Type data: AUSTRALIA: New South Wales, Condobolin, on Templetonia egena. Syntypes, female, Type depository: Orange: Agricultural Scientific Collections Unit, Orange Agricultural Institute, NSW, Australia; homonym through subsequent combination (discovered by Laing1929, 33). Illustr.
Lepidosaphes chitinosa Sasscer 1915: 37. change of combination resulting in homonymy (discovered by Laing1929, 33). Notes: Homonym of Lepidosaphes chitinosus Lindinger 1909e
Lepidosaphes froggatti Laing 1929: 33. replacement name Replacement name for Lepidosaphes chitinosa Froggatt 1914

Families: 1 | Genera: 1

Countries: 1

Structure: Female cover white, long, slender, cylindrical and usually straight or only slightly curved. Exuviae pale yellow, but often encrusted with white secretion, narrowed at apex. Adult female light chocolate brown, elongate; pygidium broadly rounded chitinous, with a pair of rounded median lobes projecting beyond the margin, with 2 serrate angular point projections on either side that are apparently not true lobes; edges finely serrate, with scattered hairs; anal aperture rounded (Froggatt, 1914).
General Remarks: Best description and illustration by Froggatt (1914).