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Leucaspis brittini Green, 1929 (Diaspididae: Leucaspis)

Leucaspis brittini Green 1929: 389. Type data: NEW ZEALAND: South Island, Oamaru, on Muehlenbeckia sp., by G. Brittin. Syntypes, female, Type depository: London: The Natural History Museum, England, UK; accepted valid name Illustr.
Leucodiaspis brittini (Green, 1929); Lindinger 1932: 107. emendation that is unjustified Notes: Kirkaldy (1904a) considered Leucaspis Signoret 1869 preoccupied by Leucaspis Burmeister, 1835, in the Hymenoptera and suggested that the Signoret name be replaced with Leucodiaspis. Ferris (1936a) rejected this, considering it unnecessary (Morrison & Morrison, 1966).

Families: 1 | Genera: 1

Countries: 1

Systematics: Leucaspis brittini is close to L. pittospori, but can be separated by the smaller paratrophic pores of the adult and by the much larger lobes and differently shaped squamulae of the nymph. It can be separated from L. melicytidis and L. cordylinidis by having the 3 middle groups of perivulvar pores distinctly separated (Brittin, 1937).
Structure: Female scale elongate, slender, rather strongly convex. Larval exuviae exposed, dull brown; nymphal exuviae completely concealed beneath the opaque white secretionary appendix, 2.5 mm long, 0.75 mm wide. Nymph elongate and narrow, 2 mm long, greatest breadth 0.6 mm. Adult female narrow, 1.5-1.75 mm long, width about 0.5 mm (Green, 1929).
General Remarks: Detailed description and illustration by Green (1929).