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Tulefiorinia simplex Mamet, 1959 (Diaspididae: Tulefiorinia)

Tulefiorinia simplex Mamet 1959a: 461-464. Type data: MADAGASCAR: Tuléar, on undetermined plant, ?/06/1951, 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 almost entirely composed of 2nd exuviae, elongate oval, broadest across anterior third, black, shiny, with a median longitudinal carina. Larval exuviae pale straw colored, situated at anterior extremity which is broadly rounded. Male scale elongate, longitudinally tricarinate, parallel-sided, white. Adult female pupillarial, elongated, broadest across the 1st abdominal segment, with a sharp depression of the margin about the level of the 2nd and 3rd abdominal segments. Pygidium with 2 pairs of lobes. Median lobes well developed, non-zygotic at base, variable in size and shape, usually separated from each other by a space equal to about one-third the width of one of them, sometimes set close together but never fused, with apex smooth or variously notched and usually broadly rounded. 2nd lobes smaller than median lobes, usually notched on outer margin, sometimes obscurely bilobed (Mamet, 1959a).