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Unaspis makilingena Takagi, 2024 (Diaspididae: Unaspis)

Unaspis makilingena Takagi 2024: 163. Type data: PHILIPPINES: Luzón, Laguna, Los Baños, foot of Mt. Makiling, on leaves of small Antidesma pentandrum (Euphorbiaceae), 8/4/1993.. Holotype, female, by original designation Type depository: Los Banos: Entomological Museum, Museum of Natural History, University of the Philippines at Los Banos, College, Laguna, Luzon, Philippines; accepted valid name Illustr.

Families: 1 | Genera: 1

Countries: 1

Structure: Female test brownish; male test with waxy cover tricarinate. Body elongated, fusiform; when fully grown, cephalothorax much longer than abdomen, narrowing anteriorly, and sclerotized except along posterior margin of metathorax. Antennae represented by small triangular tubercles. Anterior spiracles each with several (some 3-5) disc pores laterally; posterior spiracles without disc pores, accompanied by a few triangular gland spines posteriorly. Head and pro- and mesothoracic region with microducts very few within the body margin on ventral surface. Metathorax with some microducts between body margin and posterior spiracle (Takagi 2024).
Biology: Found on host tree growing by side of volcano, so that hot steam was blowing out onto collected scales (Takagi 2024).
General Remarks: Description and illustration by Takagi (2024). Mounted types noted to be in poor condition; he designated the examined form "the Mud Spring form" due to host site, with expected normal form unknown.