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Octaspidiotus shanghaiensis Wei & Zhou, 2016 (Diaspididae: Octaspidiotus)

Octaspidiotus shanghaiensis Wei & Zhou 2016. Type data: CHINA: Shanghai City, Changfeng Park, on Echinochloa crusgalli, 4/11/2015, by Hongliang Li. Holotype, female, by original designation Type depository: Yangling: Entomological Museum, Northwestern Agricultural University, Shaanxi Province, China.; accepted valid name Illustr.

Families: 1 | Genera: 1

Countries: 1

Systematics: This species is similar to O. cymbidii Tang in the body shape and the pygidial lobes, but can be distinguished by the following characters (those for O. cymbidii in parentheses): 1) without marginal macroduct on abdomen segment III (with 3–4); 2) the three plates between L2 and L3 all equally shaped (the third plate is narrower than the first and the second plates); 3) L1 is separated by a space 0.2–0.3 times the width of each median lobe (by a space 0.5 times the width of each L1); 4) without marginal macroducts between L1 (present). (Wei & Zhou, 2016)
Structure: Adult female scale nearly oval, flat, dark greyish in colour; exuviae nearly central. (Wei & Zhou, 2016)
General Remarks: Detailed description and illustration in Wei & Zhou, 2016.

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