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Leucaspis montikoghis Hardy & Williams, 2018 (Diaspididae: Leucaspis)

Leucaspis montikoghis Hardy & Williams 2018: 33. Type data: NEW CALEDONIA: Mt. Kohgis, on Podocarpus sp., 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: 2 adult females, 6 puparia (2 of which contain embryos), and 1 first-instar nymph on 9 slides: same data as holotype, BM 19 17 Illustr.

Families: 1 | Genera: 1

Countries: 1

Systematics: http://zoobank.org/4B28BBB5-529C-4A9D-8C89-1BDBD7A5A0DB The new species, L. montikoghis, can be recognized by having two pairs of broad lanceolate pygidial lobes, spiniform plates, and many pores (~20) in the posterior pre-pygidial group. The latter trait is especially distinctive; there are about twice as many pores in this group as in any described species.(Hardy & Williams, 2018)
Structure: Adult female pupillarial. Body 0.94–2.06 mm long, 0.51–0.54 mm wide; outline elongate, margins of head and pygidium rounded. Pygidium with two lobes on each side, each longer than wide, lanceolate (i.e., distal half tapering to pointed apex), base slightly overlaying venter of pygidium. Plates spiniform, slightly longer than lobes, two between L1s, two between L1 and L2, ~8 anterolateral of L2. Dorsum with sclerotic area containing anus, plus two smaller patches posterior to anus, medial patch confluent with that around anus in some specimens. (Hardy & Williams, 2018)
General Remarks: Detailed description and illustration in Hardy & Williams, 2018.

HardyWi2018: description, diagnosis, distribution, host, illustration, taxonomy, 33-34