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Rutherfordia minor Takagi, 2021 (Diaspididae: Rutherfordia)

Rutherfordia minor Takagi 2021: 22. Type data: MALAYSIA: Malaya, Kuala Lumpur, Kepong, on Palaquium gutta, 11/24/1985. Holotype, female, male, and first instar, by original designation Type depository: Kepong: Forest Research Institute of Malaysia, Selandgor, Malaysia; accepted valid name Illustr.

Families: 1 | Genera: 1

Countries: 2

Systematics: The adult female of this species represents an ordinary diaspidine pattern in general characters, especially in the shape of the body at full growth and in the occurrence of macroducts. It is provided with thick scleroses marginally on the sixth and seventh abdominal segments and has the marginal gland spines much elongated on the fourth and fifth segments. In having these characters this species is referable to Rutherfordia. (Takagi, 2021)
Structure: Adult female, when grown, fusiform, with meso-, metathorax and abd I-III lobed laterally; pygidium nearly triangular, little or slightly rounded along free margin. Median trullae well developed, set parallel, basally separated from each other by a space largely occupied by an elliptic or oblong median sclerosis and provided with a pair of marginal setae, (Takagi, 2021)
Biology: Females and males occurring on the lower surface of the leaves; females burrowing under the upper epidermal layer of the leaf; second-instar males standing on the head, holding the body and the test formed around the body suberect against the leaf surface. (Takagi, 2021)
General Remarks: Detailed description and illustration in Takagi, 2021.

Takagi2021: description, diagnosis, distribution, host, illustration, nymph, taxonomy, 22-23, 30, 41-43