Valid Names Results

Pentacicola Takagi, 1993 (Diaspididae)

Pentacicola Takagi 1993: 11-12. Type species: Pentacicola spinosus Takagi by original designation . accepted valid name

Systematics: Subfamily DIASPIDINAE Tribe DIASPIDINI Subtribe CHIONASPIDINA (Normark, et al., 2019)
Structure: Adult female subrhombic to subpyriform, with pygidium produced; at full growth head, thorax and basal abdominal segments sclerotized, convex dorsally. Pygidium with pectinae. Prepygidial gland spines sclerotized, with a long apical extension; arranged in a continuous or interrupted row, which starts between the anterior and posterior spiracles, extends toward the margin, then curves along the margin to run on to the base of the pygidium. Macroducts strewn dorsally on pygidium and some prepygidial segments, and laterally to the row of gland spines (Takagi, 1993).

Takagi1993: pp.24 ( Adult (F) ) [A tentative key to the genera of the subtribe Protodiaspidina]