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Singapuraspis lasianthi Takagi, 2003 (Diaspididae: Singapuraspis)

Singapuraspis lasianthi Takagi 2003: 85-86. Type data: SINGAPORE: Bukit Timah. Holotype, female, by original designation Type depository: Sapporo: Entomological Institute, Faculty of Agriculture, Hokkaido University, Japan; accepted valid name

Families: 1 | Genera: 1

Countries: 1

Structure: Body oblong to broad obovate, with the free segments gently lobed laterally; pygidium broad, roundish on the margin. At full growth, the derm sclerotic throughout, with the intersegmental furrows heavily sclerotized; pygidium reticulate over a large central area of the dorsal surface, wrinkled longitudinally on other parts. Antennae situated within the frontal margin, separated from each other by a space nearly as broad as the frame of the mouth-parts, each with a short curved seta. (Takagi, 2003) Second-instar female with each meruan trulla asymmetrical, laterally followed by angular processes occurring nearly along the entire pygidial margin; gland spines absent. Second-instar male sirpilar to the second-instar female in the pygidial appendages, but the median trullae with a rather deep incision, thus appearing bilobulate.
Biology: Females and males occurring among the dense erect hairs covering the nodes of the twigs. Males also occur on other parts of the twigs and along the midrib on the lower surface of the leaves, these parts being densely covered with shorter hairs. Female tests deeply inserted and held erect among the dense hairs, long elliptic, with both dorsal and ventral portions well formed and gently swollen; blackish brown. Male tests also inserted among the hairs, white, and not carinate. (Takagi, 2003)
General Remarks: Detailed description and illustration in Takagi, 2003.

Takagi2003: description, distribution, host, illustration, structure, taxonomy, 85-86, 107, 139-142