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Xiphuraspis ctenopyga Takagi, 1999 (Diaspididae: Xiphuraspis)

Xiphuraspis ctenopyga Takagi 1999a: 100-102. Type data: MALAYSIA: Malaya, Selangor, Kepong, on Dendrocalamus sp., 14/06/1990. Holotype, female, Type depository: Kepong: Forest Research Institute of Malaysia, Selandgor, Malaysia; accepted valid name Illustr.

Families: 1 | Genera: 1

Countries: 1

Systematics: Xiphuraspis ctenopyga is remarkable in having a median group of dorsal macroducts on the pygidium. This group occupies a broad median space between the anus and the apex of the pygidium, ending with a macroduct occurring between the median trullae (Takagi, 1999a).
Structure: Female scale elongate, very narrow, with a thin median ridge, brown, exuvial casts darker than secretionary part. Male scale similar, but much shorter than the completed female scale, median ridge narrowly white. Adult female body slender, 1.6 mm long, more than 6 times as long as wide, the meso- and metathorax becoming especially elongate, and these segments and basal 2 abdominal segments sclerotized dorsally (Takagi, 1999a).
General Remarks: Detailed description and illustration by Takagi (1999a).

Takagi1999a: description, distribution, host, illustration, taxonomy, 100-102, 116, 124-12