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Leucaspis ohakunensis Brittin, 1937 (Diaspididae: Leucaspis)

Leucaspis ohakunensis Brittin 1937: 287. Type data: NEW ZEALAND: South Island, Nelson, on Astelia sp.. Lectotype, female, by subsequent designation (BoerVa1977,161). Type depository: Auckland: New Zealand Arthropod Collection, Landcare Research, New Zealand; accepted valid name Illustr.

Families: 6 | Genera: 9

Countries: 1

Systematics: Leucaspis ohakunensis is close to L. gigas, in lobes and confluent perivulvar pores of adult and also in the pygidium of the nymph. It differs in the paratrophic pores, the slightly fewer perivulvar pores, larger groups of parastigmatic pores, and in the presence of the short squamulae in the adult (Brittin, 1937).
Structure: Scale cover white, thin, somewhat transparent, broader in females than in males. Adult females creamy, becoming light purple at full maturity, eggs light purple. Adult females enclosed in medium to dark brown 2nd instar female, which is heavily sclerotized except for pygidium (Boer & Valentine, 1977).
General Remarks: Detailed redescription and reillustration by Boer & Valentine (1977).