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Pseudaulacaspis hartii (Laing, 1929) (Diaspididae: Pseudaulacaspis)

Lepidosaphes hartii Laing 1929: 31-32. Type data: AUSTRALIA: Victoria, Gippsland, Bairnsdale, on Banksia serrata, by T.S. Hart. Syntypes, female, Type depository: London: The Natural History Museum, England, UK; accepted valid name Illustr.
Phenacaspis hartii (Laing, 1929); Borchsenius 1966: 122. change of combination
Pseudaulacaspis hartii (Laing, 1929); Takagi 1985: 46. change of combination

Families: 1 | Genera: 1

Countries: 1

Systematics: Lepidosaphes hartii is most closely related to L. grandilobis, but the median pair of lobes, though the same general shape, are considerably shorter and broader and more widely separated, while the second pair, though small, are quite well defined and not reduced to minute triangular projections, such as they are in L. grandilobis, nor are the spiniform plates so numerous nor so strongly developed (Laing, 1929).
Structure: Female scale mytiliform shape, white, slightly waxy in appearance, smooth, 3 times as long as wide posteriorly; exuviae warm reddish brown, nymphal exuviae overlaid by a thin layer of whitish secretion, 3 mm long. Male scale resembling that of female, but not quite so broad posteriorly, white, but not waxy, more woolly in texture; exuviae pale stramineous, 1.5 mm long. Adult female cleared completely in potash, derm membranous, rather narrow in front, widening out to the prepygidial segment, then contracting sharply to form a low, broad pygidium (Laing, 1929).
General Remarks: Best description and illustration by Laing (1929).