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Tecaspis retigera (Cockerell, 1901) (Diaspididae: Tecaspis)

Chionaspis retigera Cockerell 1901l: 249-250. Type data: SOUTH AFRICA: Natal, Durban, unidentified host, by Fuller. Syntypes, female, Type depository: London: The Natural History Museum, England, UK; accepted valid name
Duplachionaspis retigera (Cockerell, 1901); MacGillivray 1921: 332. change of combination
Chionaspis tursioides Laing 1929: 480-481. Type data: TANZANIA: Kilimanjaro, Mkuu, on "common thorn-bush," by A.H. Ritchie. Unknown type status, unknown, junior synonym (discovered by Hall1946a, 552). Illustr.
Trichomytilus tursioides (Laing, 1929); Lindinger 1933a: 166. change of combination
Tecaspis retigera (Cockerell, 1901); Hall 1946a: 538. change of combination
Tekaspis retigera; Lindinger 1957: 552. misspelling of genus name

Families: 3 | Genera: 3

Countries: 3

Hall1946a: pp.538 ( Adult (F) ) [Key to species of Tecaspis]
MacGil1921: pp.332 ( Adult (F) ) [Species of Duplachionaspis] Key as: Duplachionaspis retigera

Systematics: This species is closely related to Africaspis fici, but differs from it in the shape, and distance apart, of the median trullae, the different arrangement of the marginal gland orifices, the presence of the large median anterior group of, dorsal pores, and the smaller number of perivulvar pores (Laing, 1929a).
Structure: Scale snowy white, distinctly woolly, with low transverse ridges, widening gradually from front to rear, very highly convex in the middle, with steep, almost vertical sides, the curved back forming a sharp edge with ventral surface anteriorly and posteriorly; no ventral scale, except remnants anteriorly; exuviae golden brown. Adult female very blackish brown, flattish at head and pygidial ends, with the median segments highly domed. Derm clearing completely in potash (Laing, 1929a).
General Remarks: Detailed description and illustration by Laing (1929a).