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Antonina kazasae Gavrilov-Zimin, 2024 (Pseudococcidae: Antonina)

Antonina kazasae Gavrilov-Zimin 2024: 288. Type data: VIETNAM: Cat Tien National Park, in leaf sheaths of bamboo, 4/20/2021, by T. Novgorodova. Holotype, female, by original designation Type depository: St. Petersburg: Zoological Museum, Academy of Science, Russia; accepted valid name Notes: Paratype: 1 adult female on separate slide with same data as holotype Illustr.

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Systematics: A. kazasae lacks the irregular disc-like pores typically found on the venter posterior to the spiracles in most species of Antonina. Only two Palearctic Antonina species are known to lack these irregular pores: A. evelynae Gavrilov, 2003 and A. vera Borchsenius, 1956. However, both of these species possess a wide band of multilocular pores along the body margin, whereas A. kazasae does not exhibit such a band at all. Additionally, A. kazasae differs from all its congeners by the presence of a ring of tubular ducts surrounding the external opening of the anal tube (Gavrilov-Zimin & Novgorodova 2024).
Structure: Adult female: Body almost round, 1.5–2.0 mm in diametre, sclerotised in mature females (especially posterior segment of abdomen). Antennae vestigial, one-segmented. Legs absent. Anal apparatus located inside of anal tube, about 120 μm long; anal ring with six setae, each about as long as anal tube; external opening of anal tube with ring of tubular ducts. Vulva as in other congeners, with lateral and posterior apophyses. Both pairs of ostioles absent. Circulus absent. Males and morphology of larvae unknown (Gavrilov-Zimin & Novgorodova 2024).
Biology: Females exhibit complete ovoviviparity. The females were found within the leaf sheaths of bamboo, where they were attended to and actively guarded by the black ant, Dolichoderus thoracicus Smith, 1860 (Gavrilov-Zimin & Novgorodova 2024).