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Tsimbazaspis euphorbiae Mamet, 1962 (Diaspididae: Tsimbazaspis)

Tsimbazaspis euphorbiae Mamet 1962: 200-202. Type data: MADAGASCAR: Tsimbazaza, on Euphorbia davei, ?/07/1957, by R. Paulian. Holotype, female, Type depository: Paris: Museum National d'Histoire naturelle, France; accepted valid name Illustr.

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Structure: Female scale pure white in color, elongate, broadest behind, rather convex; exuviae of 1st stage pale buff, terminal; exuviae of 2nd stage pinkish-brown, obscured by whitish secretion. Male scale elongate, narrow, obscurely tricarinate, white; exuviae pale buff, terminal. Adult female elongate, membranous, 1.2 mm long. Pygidium with 3 pairs of lobes. Median lobes non-zygotic, set quite apart from each other in a depression of the pygidial margin, diverging, each with apical margin rounded, with a pair of minute, ventral setae between their bases. 2nd lobes bilobulate; inner lobule larger, with rounded apex; outer lobule more or less conical. 3rd lobes not well developed, bilobulate; inner lobule larger, with rounded apex, outer lobule somewhat broad at base, conical (Mamet, 1962).