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Tamuraspis malloti Takagi, 1989 (Diaspididae: Tamuraspis)

Tamuraspis malloti Takagi 1989: 124-127. Type data: NEPAL: by the River Tamur, on the way from Phidim, Mechi Zone to Sankranti, Kosi Zone, on Mallotus philippinensis, 13/11/1983. Holotype, female, Type depository: Sapporo: Entomological Institute, Faculty of Agriculture, Hokkaido University, Japan; accepted valid name Illustr.

Families: 1 | Genera: 1

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Structure: Female scale mytiliform, highly convex dorsally, thick, dark brown; often covered wholly or partly with the epidermal tissue of the host plant. Male scale white, felted and tricarinate. Adult female body elongate, fusiform; 2.3 mm long at maturity, remaining membranous along prepygidial intersegmental borders and on head; head disproportionately narrow. Pygidial lobes large and heavy, serrate, irregularly notched or almost entire; median lobes appressed together on most of their mesal margins, roundish apically, oblique and nearly straight on lateral margins, then a little constricted basally. Second-instar female with pygidial lobes nearly as in adult female; marginal gland spines 1 on 3rd to 7th abdominal segments each. Dorsal ducts small, occurring in submedian and marginal-submarginal series on 4th (or 5th) to 7th segments and in posterolateral corners of preceding segments as far forward as meta- or mesothorax, few in each series. Second instar male body somewhat ovoid, membranous. Pygidial lobes well developed, sclerotized, broad and serrate; median lobes set close together, rounded; 2nd lobes separated from median lobe by a narrow space, bilobulate, lobules somewhat smaller than median lobe; 3rd lobe similar to 2nd, but smaller (Takagi, 1989).
Biology: Tamuraspis malloti was collected at an altitude of 400-500 m (Takagi, 1989).
General Remarks: Detailed description and illustration by Takagi (1989).