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Velataspis grandidentes Ferris, 1941 (Diaspididae: Velataspis)

Velataspis grandidentes Ferris 1941d: SIII-327. Type data: PANAMA: Chiriqui, Volcan de Chiriqui, on Inga sp., 1938, by G.F. Ferris. Holotype, female, Type depository: Davis: The Bohart Museum of Entomology, University of California, California, USA; accepted valid name Illustr.

Families: 1 | Genera: 1

Countries: 1

Systematics: Velataspis grandidentes resembles V. mimosarum in the form of the ocular tubercle, but it differs in the very large apically rounded median pygidial lobes and in the form of the ventral sclerotizations arising from these lobes and also in the flattened and elongate lobule of the second lobes (Ferris, 1941d).
Structure: Scales of both male and female a clear pale yellow. Slide-mounted adult female about 0.75 mm long. Derm membranous throughout except for pygidium. Median lobes very large but short, their margins broadly rounded and minutely crenulate. 2nd lobes with outer lobule suppressed, 1st lobule relatively large, flattened (Ferris, 1941d).
General Remarks: Detailed description and illustration by Ferris (1941d).