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Pseudoparlatoria cinchonae (McKenzie, 1944) (Diaspididae: Pseudoparlatoria)

Protodiaspis cinchonae McKenzie 1944: 57. Type data: BOLIVIA: Coroico, La Paz, on Cinchona calisaya var. josephiana, ?/02/1943, by M. Cardenas. Holotype, female, Type depository: Washington: United States National Entomological Collection, U.S. National Museum of Natural History, District of Columbia, USA; accepted valid name Illustr.
Pseudoparlatoria chinchonae (McKenzie, 1944); Normark, et al. 2019: 58. change of combination and misspelling of species epithet

Families: 1 | Genera: 1

Countries: 1

Systematics: Pseudoparlatoria cinchonae was described in Protodiaspis and thought to be related to P. praetexta, but differs in that it possesses a more acute pygidium, far greater number of dorsal macroducts, lacks disc pores associated with anterior spiracles and has a membranous prosoma (McKenzie, 1944). Based on molecular evidence, Normark, et al. (2019) regards Protodiaspis chinchonae McKenzie as a species of Pseudoparlatoria that lacks perivulvar pores—Pseudoparlatoria chinchonae (McKenzie), new combination—a view similar to that expressed by Takagi (1993).
Structure: Female scale occurring within tiny green leaf galls, strongly resembling those produced by many eriophyid mites. Slide-mounted adult female with derm membranous at maturity, pygidium acute, perivulvar pores lacking; median pygidial lobes widely separated, divergent, 2nd and 3rd lobes irregularly shaped but definitely present (McKenzie, 1944).
General Remarks: Best description and illustration by McKenzie (1944).