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Voraspis carpenteri (Laing, 1929) (Diaspididae: Voraspis)

Chionaspis carpenteri Laing 1929a: 481-482. Type data: UGANDA: Nkosi Island, S. Sesse, Lake Victoria, by G.D. Hale Carpenter. Syntypes, female, Type depository: London: The Natural History Museum, England, UK; accepted valid name Illustr.
Voraspis carpenteri (Laing, 1929); Hall 1946a: 540. change of combination

Countries: 1

Structure: Scale of adult female snowy white, sides more or less straight, seldom curved, long, narrow, widening slightly posteriorly, length in a well-developed scale at least three times its greatest breadth; exuviae usually overlaid with a white secretion, but larval infrequently, and nymphal occasionally, bare, pale golden brown. Scale of male white, more or less parallel-sided, occasionally widening somewhat posteriorly, tricarinate, but neither the median nor lateral ridges very conspicuous; exuviae golden brown. Adult female long, narrow, widening gradually to prepygidial segments, about 3 times longer than greatest width, body soft (Laing, 1929a).
General Remarks: Detailed description and illustration by Laing (1929a). Reillustration by Borchsenius & Williams (1963).