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Yomaspis ventropora Munting, 1968 (Diaspididae: Yomaspis)

Yomaspis ventropora Munting 1968a: 431-432. Type data: SOUTH AFRICA: Whiteriver, on Diospyros whyteana, ?/02/1964, by F. White & J. Munting. Holotype, female, Type depository: Pretoria: South African National Collection of Insects, South Africa; accepted valid name Illustr.

Families: 1 | Genera: 1

Countries: 1

Structure: Female scale white, elongate, about 1.5 mm long, secretory matter completely enclosing the insect which is usually found in cracks or cavities in the bark and between the pedicel of the leaf and the stem. Male scale elongate, white, non-carinate, about 0.8 mm long, with pale yellow exuviae at one end. Adult female with prosoma heavily sclerotized at maturity; 0.7-1.2 mm long. Median lobes small, rounded, well separated, but yoked basally; 2nd lobes present only as sclerotized apices of projections of the pygidial margin and extending well beyond the apices of projections of the pygidial margin notch in the pygidium; other lobes obsolete (Munting, 1968a).
General Remarks: Detailed description and illustration by Munting (1968a).