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Triraphaspis hymenophylli Mamet, 1959 (Diaspididae: Triraphaspis)

Triraphaspis hymenophylli Mamet 1959: 129-131. Type data: REUNION: Plateau de Bélouve, on Hymenophyllum sp., ?/06/1957, by J. Bosser. Holotype, female, Type depository: Paris: Museum National d'Histoire naturelle, France; accepted valid name Illustr.

Families: 1 | Genera: 1

Countries: 1

Structure: Female scale elongate, a little convex, white, thickly textured with exuviae terminal. Male scale elongate, more slender, without carinae, white, thin textured, more or less translucent and shiny. Adult female with distinct metathoracic segment. Pygidium with 2 pairs of developed lobes. Median lobes divergent, longer than broad, with inner margin notched 3 times and outer margin with one broad notch, situated in a depression of the pygidial margin, each with a sclerotized basal process extending into pygidium, separated from each other by a space equal to about twice the width of one of them and in which occur a pair of gland spines and a marginal dorsal duct (Mamet, 1959).
Biology: This species was collected at an altitude of 1500-1600 meters (Mamet, 1959).
General Remarks: Detailed description and illustration by Mamet (1959).