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Unaspis rousseti Balachowsky, 1957 (Diaspididae: Unaspis)

Unaspis rousseti Balachowsky 1957: 29-33. Type data: THAILAND: Bangkok, near the Pagode scarée de marbre, on Mangifera indica, 23/02/1954, by A.S. Balachowsky. Syntypes, female, Type depository: Paris: Museum National d'Histoire naturelle, France; accepted valid name Illustr.

Families: 1 | Genera: 1

Countries: 1

Systematics: Unaspis rousseti can be distinguished from other species of Unaspis by several important characters: the presence of double pygidial gland spines; the small separated groups of peristigmatic glands and the large number of dorsal micropores (70-86) surpassed only by U. yanonensis which has up to 150 (Balachowsky, 1957).
Structure: Female scale mytiliform elongate, brown, with 2nd exuviae darker. Median ridge carinated and well marked over the entire length of the scale. Adult female elongate; pygidium with 3 pairs of well developed lobes. First lobes robust, inserted in the pygidial margin, divergent and not joined at their base by a sclerosis. 2nd lobes mostly conical, symmetrical (Balachowsky, 1957).
General Remarks: Best description and illustration by Balachowsky (1957).