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Leucaspis senilobata Green, 1929 (Diaspididae: Leucaspis)

Leucaspis cordylinidis senilobata Green 1929: 383-385. Type data: NEW ZEALAND: South Island, Chirstchurch, on Griselinia littoralis, 13/08/1921. Syntypes, female, Type depository: London: The Natural History Museum, England, UK; accepted valid name Illustr.
Cryptoparlatorea senilobata (Green, 1929); Lindinger 1932: 203. change of combination and rank
Apteronidia senilobata (Green, 1929); Lindinger 1934: 37. change of combination
Leucaspis senilobata Green, 1929; Jancke 1955: 302. change of combination

Families: 1 | Genera: 1

Countries: 1

Structure: Female scale elongate, narrow, rather strongly convex, straight of variously contorted; normally dead white, but often discolored by the adherence of dust and fragments of bark. Larval exuviae with anterior half yellowish and posterior half blackish, nymphal exuviae completely concealed beneath the white secertionary covering, 2.5 mm long. Male scale elongate, narrow, straight, similar to that of female, but less convex and usually recognizable by its cleaner and whiter secretionary appendix. Adult female elongate, broadest across abdominal region, narrowing to the frontal extremity, bluntly pointed behind, 1.75 mm long (Green, 1929).
General Remarks: Detailed description and illustration by Green (1929).