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Protancepaspis torreyae Takagi & Kawai, 1973 (Diaspididae: Protancepaspis)

Protancepaspis torreyae Takagi & Kawai 1973: 44-52. Type data: JAPAN: Honshu, Nisigahara, Tokyo, on Torreya nucifera, 28/10/1968 and 22/11/1971, by S. Kawai. Syntypes, female, Type depository: Sapporo: Entomological Institute, Faculty of Agriculture, Hokkaido University, Japan; Tokyo: Imperial Agricultural Experiment Station, Tachikawa, Japan; accepted valid name Illustr.

Families: 1 | Genera: 1

Countries: 1

Systematics: Adult females of P. torreyae can be told from those of P. bidentata in the antenna in the former had 1 tubercle and as many as 8 in the latter (Takagi & Kawai, 1973).
Structure: Female scale brown, with cephalothorax embedded in waxy secretion. Male scale white, elongate, depressed, with a rather smooth appearance. Adult female pupillarial, body elongate-pyriform, with a narrow pygidium; segmentation indistinct; derm membranous, with a broad median region of pygidial dorsum weakly sclerotized and finely striate. Pygidium deeply and narrowly invaginated apically, the invagination occupying about one-third the length between pygidial apex and anal opening, which is situated towards the bottom of the pygidium.
General Remarks: Detailed description and illustration of adult female, both sexes of 2nd instar and 1st instar larva by Takagi & Kawai (1973).