Valid Names Results

Lepidosaphes schimae Kawai, 1972 (Diaspididae: Lepidosaphes)

Nomenclatural History

• Lepidosaphes schimae Kawai 1972a: 30-33. Type data: JAPAN: Honshu, Chichi-jima, on Schima mertensiana. Syntypes, female, Type depository: Sapporo: Entomological Institute, Faculty of Agriculture, Hokkaido University, Japan; Tokyo: Imperial Agricultural Experiment Station, Tachikawa, Japan; accepted valid name Illustr.

Common Names

• himetsubaki-kaki-kaigaramushi Kawai1972a

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Families: 1 | Genera: 1

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Remarks

• Systematics: Lepidosaphes schimae is close to L. tokionis, but is distinguishable from the latter by the absence of submedian dorsal macroducts on the 2nd abdominal segment and by having submarginal macroducts on the 6th (Kawai, 1972a).
• Structure: Adult female body robust, with free abdominal segments moderately lobed literally and with the pygidium broadly rounded. Median lobes prominent, slightly divergent, separated from each other by a little less than the width of one of them (Kawai, 1972a).
• General Remarks: Best description and illustration by Kawai (1972a).

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