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Austraspis llanquihue Normark, Normark, and Amouroux, 2025 (Diaspididae: Austraspis)

Austraspis llanquihue Normark, Normark, and Amouroux 2025: 7. Type data: CHILE: Los Lagos, Puerto Montt, ex. Drimys winteri, 2/22/2019, coll. P. Amouroux. Holotype, female, by original designation Type depository: Santiago, Museo Nacional de Historia Natural de Chile, Santiago, Chile ; accepted valid name Notes: Paratypes: One adult female, same data as holotype (USNM, NHM); one adult male and one second-instar female exuviae, same data as holotype (USNM) Illustr.

Families: 1 | Genera: 1

Countries: 1

Systematics: urn:lsid:zoobank.org:act:FB890561-1AD8-4F56-BC1C-380CCBF089DD For a discussion of how to separate this from the other, morphologically very similar species that feed on Drimys, see the remarks under A. foye.
Structure: In life, on the bark; appearing mainly white, due to coating of white wax on elongate second-instar exuviae; first-instar exuviae marginal, yellow-orange to orange-brown.
In microscope slide, 900 to 1050 μm long, 370 to 430 μm wide, broadest at metathorax. Body outline elongate oval; cuticle membranous to slightly sclerotized. Segments VII and VIII free or fused. Antenna simple, with 4 setae. Anterior spiracle with 4 to 6 (median 5) quinquelocular disc pores; posterior spiracle with 2 to 5 (median 4) pores. (Normark et al. 2025)
General Remarks: Description, illustration, and photograph by Normark et al. (2025).

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