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Myrtaspis longiloba Takagi, 2020 (Diaspididae: Myrtaspis)

Myrtaspis longiloba Takagi 2020: 34. Type data: MALAYA: Ulu Gombak, Selangor, on Eugenia sp., 6/20/1990, by S. Takagi. Holotype, female, by original designation Type depository: Kepong: Forest Research Institute of Malaysia, Selandgor, Malaysia; accepted valid name Illustr.

Families: 2 | Genera: 4

Countries: 1

Systematics: This species and Myrtaspis pinosukensis are characterized in having elongate median trullae. In M. longiloba, the state of the median trullae is considerably stable through all the samples, which were collected in a broad geographical extent and under various environmental conditions. On the other hand, the examined samples are variable in the occurrence and numbers of wax organs, especially of the dorsal macroducts. However, none of them have lateral macroducts on the mesothorax, and this character may be adopted as a diagnostic one in distinguishing this species from M. pinosukensis (Takagi, 2020).
Structure: Adult female. Median trullae much longer than mesal lobule of second trulla, deeply sunken into apex of pygidium, elongate, divergent, basally with a pair of small sclerites separated from each other by a narrow space and yoked together by a sclerotized band of derm. Second and third trullae with both lobules well represented. Anterior spiracles each with disc pores generally not numerous; posterior spiracles each with a few to several disc pores or none. (Takagi, 2020)
General Remarks: Detailed description and illustration in Takagi, 2020)

Takagi2020: biology, description, diagnosis, distribution, host, illustration, 34-36, 71-74