Wang, F., & Feng, J.N. 2013a First record of the soft scale genus Platylecanium Cockerell & Robinson (Hemiptera, Coccoidea, Coccidae), with one newly recorded species from China. Acta Zootaxonomica Sinica 38(2): 440-442

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Notes: A newly recorded species Platylecanium nepalense Takagi, 1975 collected on Calamus platyacanthoides from Yunnan, China is described and illustrated in detail. The genus Platylecanium Cockerell & Robinson, 1915 is also first reported in China. P. nepalense can be distinguished by the following features: body margin smooth, stigmatic spines 4 or 5 in each stigmatic cleft, anal plates together rhombus and legs absent.