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Neomorgania nothofagi (Hardy & Williams, 2018) (Diaspididae: Neomorgania)

Neomorgania nothofagi Hardy & Williams 2018: 37. Type data: NEW CALEDONIA: Riviera Bleue, on Nothofagus codonandra, 10/10/1978, by J.S. Dugdale. Holotype, female, by original designation Type depository: London: The Natural History Museum, England, UK; accepted valid name Notes: Paratypes: New Caledonia: 5 adult females on 5 slides: same data as holotype, BM 19 11 (NHMUK, USNM); 6 adult females and 1 second-instar nymph on 7 slides: ex Nothofagus baumanii, Mt. Mou, 2.xi.1978, PN Johnson, BM 19 5, BM 19 20 (NHMUK, USNM, MNHN). Illustr.

Families: 1 | Genera: 1

Countries: 1

Systematics: http://zoobank.org/60F7F46C-7473-49D1-9D35-B63B8510CFEE N. nothofagi can be distinguished by having has one group of perivulvar pores on each side of the body. It has two simple plates on each side of the pygidium, and the paraphyses are shorter than the medial lobes. The body outline is incised between the meso- and metathorax, in addition to between the pro- and mesothorax. Furthermore, it has a large cluster of quinquelocular pores mesal of each anterior spiracle; pores are absent in N. eucalypti. (Hardy & Williams, 2018)
Structure: Adult female presumed to secrete scale cover. Body 1.07–1.56 mm long, broadest near posterior end of fused head and prothorax (0.76–1.17 um); outline roughly turbinate (head and thorax broad, abdomen tapering caudally), deeply incised between thoracic segments and between posterior pre-pygidial abdominal segments. (Hardy & Williams, 2018)
General Remarks: Detailed description and illustration in Hardy & Williams, 2018

HardyWi2018: description, diagnosis, distribution, host, illustration, taxonomy, 37-40