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Rolaspis angularis (Munting, 1967) (Diaspididae: Rolaspis)

Tecaspis angularis Munting 1967a: 267-268. Type data: SOUTH AFRICA: Cape Province, Kingwilliamstown District, Keiskamma Hoek, on Scutia myrtina, 15/10/1965, by D.P. Annecke. Holotype, female, Type depository: Pretoria: South African National Collection of Insects, South Africa; accepted valid name Illustr.
Rolaspis angularis (Munting, 1967); Munting 1969: 141. change of combination

Families: 1 | Genera: 1

Countries: 1

Systematics: Rolaspis angularis resembles Tecaspis kiggelariae, but differs from it in the length of the microducts on the inner ends of the marginal macroducts on segments 6 and 7, the distribution of the ducts on the prepygidial segments, and in the angular shape of the lateral margins of segment 2 (Munting, 1967a).
Structure: Female scale about 3.0 mm long, 0.5 mm wide and white; 2nd exuviae pale yellow but covered with a thin layer of wax. Male scale about 1.3 mm long, parallel-sided with a faint median carina, white, exuviae pale yellow. Adult female long and slender, prosoma not heavily sclerotized at maturity. Pygidium broadly rounded. Median lobes projecting slightly, apically dentate, parallel-sided and converging; 2nd lobes well developed, bilobulate, rounded, inner lobule larger than outer and with a conspicuous basal sclerosis; other lobes obsolete (Munting, 1967a).
General Remarks: Detailed description and illustration by Munting (1967a).