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Pseudaonidia cycasae Feng & Wei, 2011 (Diaspididae: Pseudaonidia)

Pseudaonidia cycasae Feng & Wei 2011: 176. Type data: CHINA: Funiu Mountain, Henan, 7/10/1996, on Cycas. Holotype, female, by original designation Type depository: Yangling: Entomological Museum, Northwestern Agricultural University, Shaanxi Province, China.; accepted valid name Illustr.

Families: 1 | Genera: 1

FengWe2011: pp.174-175 ( Adult (F) ) [Key to the species of the genus Pseudaonidia in Oriental Region (Adult female)]

Systematics: P. cycasae is similar to P. paeoniae and P. corbetti but differs from both in the absent paraphyses on the margin of pygidium. It has 2 groups of perivulvar pores whereas P. paeoniae has 3 groups and the length of dorsal macroducts are longer in P. cycasae. It differs from P. corbetti in 1) posterior spiracles with 1-3 disc pores (absent in (P. corbetti), 2) plates few (well-developed in P. corbetti), and 3) the shape of the pygidial lobes.
Structure: Female scale circular or oval, comparative convex, black brown exuviae central or subcentral. Slide-mounted female with a deep constriction between prothorax and mesothorax. Derm remaining membraneous except for pygidium. dorsum of pygidium with well-developed reticulation. Pygidium with 4 pairs well-developed lobes. Perivulvar pores present in 2 groups.
General Remarks: Detailed description and illustration in Feng & Wei, 2011.

FengWe2011: description, distribution, host, illustration, structure, taxonomy, 175-176