Matile-Ferrero, D., & Foldi, I. 2018 A new genus of armoured scale insect for a new scale-less species living inside nests of the ant Rhopalomastix johorensis in Singapore (Hemiptera, Coccomorpha, Diaspididae). Bulletin de la Société Entomologique de France 123 (4): 525-529

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ant association

biology

description

distribution

host

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taxonomy

Notes: Rhopalaspis peetersi n. gen., n. sp., living inside nests of the arboreal colony of the ant Rhopalomastix johorensis, is described from Singapore. This armoured scale insect is scale-less, unlike all the other species of Diaspididae. Furthermore, armoured scale insects do not produce honeydew.