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Rugaspidiotus sculpturatus Ferris, 1938 (Diaspididae: Rugaspidiotus)

Rugaspidiotus sculpturatus Ferris 1938a: SII-172. Type data: MEXICO: Baja California Norte, near San Augustin, on Encelia farinosa, 1934, by G.F. Ferris. Holotype, female, Type depository: Davis: The Bohart Museum of Entomology, University of California, California, USA; accepted valid name Illustr.

Families: 1 | Genera: 2

Countries: 2

Systematics: Rugaspidiotus sculpturatus is distinguished by the elongate body and the deep sculpturing of the pygidium (Ferris, 1938a).
Structure: Female scale elongate, thick, white. Male scale similar. Slide-mounted adult female 1.1 mm long, fusiform, the cephalothoracic region and the pygidium strongly and the remainder of the body more weakly sclerotized. Pygidium with its margin deeply indented at the intersegmental points and with minor emarginations which give it a strongly sculptured appearance, marked both dorsally and ventrally with irregular furrows. Ducts rather small and moderately slender, clearly two-barred, numerous on the dorsum even to the 8th segment, on the ventral side of the pygidium confined to a marginal zone (Ferris, 1938a).
General Remarks: Detailed description and illustration by Ferris (1938a).