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Leptaspis pege Hardy & Williams, 2018 (Diaspididae: Leptaspis)

Leptaspis pege Hardy & Williams 2018: 31. Type data: NEW CALEDONIA: Mont D’Or, roadside fountain, on sedge, 8/24/1963, by S.W. Brown. Holotype, female, by monotypy and original designation Type depository: Washington: United States National Entomological Collection, U.S. National Museum of Natural History, District of Columbia, USA; accepted valid name Notes: Paratype: New Caledonia: exuviae of 1 second-instar: on same slide as holotype Illustr.

Families: 1 | Genera: 1

Countries: 1

Systematics: http://zoobank.org/645176E4-341C-4422-8D21-EB689F1380F0
Structure: Adult female pupillarial. Body of holotype 1.46 mm long, broadest at meta-thorax (0.38 mm); body outline elongate. Pygidium without lobes or plates, on each side with ~10 microducts along margin. Anus circular, in posterior third of pygidium. Venter with vulva in posterior half, slightly anterior of anus. Perivulvar pores absent. Second-instar female. Pygidium with three lobes on each side; each lobe with rounded apex; L1 much smaller than L2 and L3. (Hardy & Williams, 2018)
General Remarks: Detailed description and illustration in Hardy & Williams, 2018.