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Salicicola lepelleyi (De Lotto, 1956) (Diaspididae: Salicicola)

Anotaspis lepelleyi De Lotto 1956: 17-18. Type data: KENYA: Nairobi, on Teclea simplicifolia, 10/04/1953, by G. De Lotto. Holotype, female, by original designation Type depository: London: The Natural History Museum, England, UK; accepted valid name
Salicicola lepelleyi (De Lotto, 1956); Normark, et al. 2019: 50. change of combination

Families: 1 | Genera: 1

Countries: 1

Systematics: Normark, et al. (2019) transferred Anotaspis lepelleyi to Salicicola stating that this African species more closely resembles the Old World genus Salicicola Lindinger than the Neotropical type species of Anotaspis, having pores by the anterior spiracles (absent in A. particula), and with the second-instar nymph having short 2-barred ducts (without ducts in A. particula) a patchy sclerotization of the pygidium (uniform in A. particula).
Structure: Scale of female reduced to larval and nymphal exuviae only, both strongly chitinized; elongate and highly convex; color evenly dark orange or reddish brown. Adult female elongate, tapering at both ends, with dorsal surface of pygidium and ventral median area of prosoma heavily chitinised at maturity (De Lotto, 1956).
General Remarks: Detailed description and illustration by De Lotto (1956).