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Microparlatoria Takahashi, 1956 (Diaspididae)

Microparlatoria Takahashi 1956b: 26-27. Type species: Parlatoria itabicola Kuwana by monotypy and original designation . accepted valid name

Systematics: Microparlatoria is closely related to Parlatoria, but differs in the pygidial marginal macroducts reduced in number, with the orifice vertical to the margin and wanting an broad rim, and in the minute pygidial dorsal ducts with the orifice not surrounded by a broad rim (Takahashi, 1956b).
Structure: Adult female body subcircular, not sclerotized, minute, smaller than the larval pellicle. Many large gland spines arranged in a continuous series from the thorax to the anterior part of the pygidium, which are somewhat lanceolate or serrate, truncated or blunt at the tip (Takahashi, 1956b).