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Lepidosaphes monticola Hardy & Williiams, 2018 (Diaspididae: Lepidosaphes)

Lepidosaphes monticola Hardy & Williiams 2018: 27. Type data: NEW CALEDONIA: Mt. Koghis, 900 m., on "Podocarpus ?logifolatus, 10/12/1978, by P.N. Johnson. Holotype, female, by original designation Type depository: London: The Natural History Museum, England, UK; accepted valid name Notes: Paratypes: New Caledonia: 1 adult female: same data as holotype; 2 adult females: on undetermined host, Mt. Mou (near Sanitarium), 19.viii.1963, SW Brown, SWB accession 254 (NHMUK, USNM); 1 adult female: ex Podocarpus longifolatus, Mt. D’Or, 900 m, 31.x.1978, J. S. Dugdale, 78-3266 (NHMUK). Other material: New Caledonia: 1 teneral adult female: same data as holotype but with accession BM 19 17. Illustr.

Families: 1 | Genera: 1

Podocarpus longifoliolatus | HardyWi2018 | Type spelling (Podocarpus ?logifolatus)

Countries: 1

Systematics: http://zoobank.org/1D189785-917C-4E7D-850E-908367B85A3E Lepidosaphes monticola belongs to a group of Pacific species that share a row of microducts on segment VII, forwards from the second lobes. In the other Pacific species this group only extends anteriorly to each side of the anus, but in L. monticola this group extends well anterior to the anus. Lepidosaphes monticola is similar to L. carolinensis Beardsley, described from The Federated States of Micronesia, L. esakii Takahashi, known from The Federated States of Micronesia and The Republic of Kiribati, and to L. karkarica Williams & Watson, described from Papua New Guinea. Lepidosaphes carolinensis has sclerotized spines on the lateral margins of the anterior abdominal segments, and L. karkara possesses well-developed lateral tubercles in these positions but L. monticola lacks these structures.
Structure: Adult female presumed to secrete scale cover. Body 1.25–1.88 mm long, broadest near anterior spiracle (0.5–0.83 mm); outline roughly fusiform, head and prothorax fused into circular prosoma, margin incised between pro- and mesothorax, margins of posterior pre-pygidial abdominal segments strongly convex. (Hardy & Williams, 2018)
General Remarks: Detailed description and illustration in Hardy & Williams, 2018.

HardyWi2018: description, diagnosis, distribution, host, illustration, taxonomy, 27-30