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Pseudaulacaspis ponticula Williams & Watson, 1988 (Diaspididae: Pseudaulacaspis)

Pseudaulacaspis ponticula Williams & Watson 1988: 235. Type data: PAPUA NEW GUINEA: Morobe, Buso, on fern, 13/10/1979, by J.H. Martin. Holotype, female, Type depository: London: The Natural History Museum, England, UK; accepted valid name Illustr.

Countries: 1

Systematics: Pseudaulacaspis ponticula should be easily distinguishable from other species of Pseudaulacaspis in the southern Pacific area in lacking perivulvar pores. In this respect it resembles Ledaspis atalantiae, but this species has the head and thorax sclerotized, whereas in P. ponticula it is membranous (Williams & Watson, 1988).
Structure: Adult female on slide elongate-oval, widest at about mesothorax; 0.95 mm long; head gently rounded to flat; body membranous except for sclerotized pygidium, median areas of pygidium heavily sclerotized. Pygidium with median lobes diverging, recessed into apex, forming a notch; each lobe with inner margins longer than outer margins, notched a few times and tending to be pointed apically; the ventral paraphyses well developed and divergent (Williams & Watson, 1988).
General Remarks: Detailed description and illustration by Williams & Watson (1988).

WilliaWa1988: description, distribution, host, illustration, taxonomy, 220, 234-235