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Tanaparlatoria erythroxyloni Mamet, 1962 (Diaspididae: Tanaparlatoria)

Tanaparlatoria erythroxyloni Mamet 1962: 197-199. Type data: MADAGASCAR: Tananarive, 28 km on road south, on Erythroxylon ferrugineum, by J. Bosser. Holotype, female, Type depository: Paris: Museum National d'Histoire naturelle, France; accepted valid name Illustr.

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Structure: Female scale circular, conical, dark brown. Exuviae centrally placed. 1st stage exuviae shiny, circular, with a narrow band of white to yellowish-white secretion along its margin; exuviae of 2nd stage circular, obscured by a peripheral band of dirty white secretion. Male scale roughly rectangular, longer than wide, rotund, brown, somewhat shiny; exuviae towards one extremity, straw colored, with central dot. Adult female circular, 0.4 mm long. 3 pairs of well-developed, pygidial lobes present; median lobes notched on both margins, with apex rounded, separated from each other by a space equal to a little less than twice the width of one of them, without any basal process. 2nd lobes about twice the size of median lobes, variously notched on both margins, with apex either rounded or more or less conical. (Mamet, 1962).