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Relhaniaspis acuminata Munting, 1970 (Diaspididae: Relhaniaspis)

Relhaniaspis acuminata Munting 1970: 10-12. Type data: SOUTH AFRICA: Cape Province, 26 miles along main road from Laingsburg to Touwsriver, 1/10/1969, on Relhania genistaefolia, by J. Munting. Holotype, female, Type depository: Pretoria: South African National Collection of Insects, South Africa; accepted valid name Illustr.

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Structure: Female scale white, broad, roughly parallel sided, 3.0 mm long, 2nd exuviae completely covered with white secretory matter. Male scale white, broadening slightly posteriorly, about 1.4 mm long, covered by a mass of flocculent secretory matter. Slide-mounted adult female broadly fusiform, entirely membranous at maturity, about 1.3 mm long. Pygidium rounded, with 3 pairs of lobes, not notched between median lobes. Median lobes well separated, bilobulate, lobules apically pointed; 2nd lobes well separated from median, bilobulate, pointed with a faint basal sclerosis projecting into pygidium; 3rd lobes well separated from 2nd, slanting towards the meson, usually bilobulate, pointed (Munting, 1970).
General Remarks: Detailed description and illustration by Munting (1970).