Valid Names Results

Myrtaspis breviloba Takagi, 2020 (Diaspididae: Myrtaspis)

Myrtaspis breviloba Takagi 2020: 28. Type data: MALAYA: Cape Rachado, Port Dickson, Negeri Sembilan, on Eugenia glauca, 11/10/1986, by S. Takagi. Holotype, female, by original designation Type depository: Kepong: Forest Research Institute of Malaysia, Selandgor, Malaysia; accepted valid name Illustr.

Families: 1 | Genera: 1

Countries: 1

Systematics: This species is similar to Myrtaspis syzygii, from which it may be distinguished in having the median trullae set closer to each other and not yoked together basally, the submedian macroducts lacking on the sixth abdominal segment, and the lateral macroducts usually lacking on the mesothorax. (Takagi, 2020)
Structure: Adult female. Median trullae small, being as large as or a little larger than mesal lobules of second and third trullae, not deeply sunken basally into apex of pygidium; expanded toward rounded apex; basally set close together, without distinct basal sclerites connected by a sclerotized band of derm. Second and third trullae bilobulate, with both lobules well represented. Anterior spiracles each with a few to several disc pores; posterior spiracles often with a single disc pore. Perivulvar disc pores not numerous. Submedian macroducts occurring often on abd III, usually on IV, and always on V, few on each segment; absent on VI. Submarginal macroducts occurring on abd III–V, not numerous on each segment. Lateral macroducts usually absent on msth; always occurring on mtth and abd I–III. Marginal gland spines usually 2 on abd IV. (Takagi, 2020)
Biology: Females occurring on twigs, also on leaves, both surfaces, and petioles; males on leaves, lower surface. (Takagi, 2020)
General Remarks: Detailed description and illustration in Takagi, 2020.

Takagi2020: biology, diagnosis, distribution, host, illustration, taxonomy, 28-29, 59