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

Austraspis pehuen Normark, Normark, and Amouroux 2025: 8. Type data: CHILE: Araucanía, Malleco, Parque Nacional Nahuelbuta, ex. leaf of Araucaria araucana, 10/7/2019, 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: 4 adult females, 4 second-instar female exuviae, 12/8/1992, T. Curkovic (MEUC) Illustr.

Families: 1 | Genera: 1

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Systematics: urn:lsid:zoobank.org:act:648C367C-FB35-406F-9197-AC7EFFD0F9C8 Austraspis pehuen, the only species of Austraspis known to feed on Araucaria, is strikingly different from its congeners, which all feed on Drimys, and could potentially be regarded as a separate genus. The lobules of A. pehuen are separate, sclerotized, and subtended by paraphysis-like basal scleroses, whereas those of the other species are appressed together and basally membranous with a hyaline crest, without scleroses. (Normark et al. 2025)
Structure: In life, on the upper surface of leaves; elongate, highly convex, appearing all white; scale cover mainly consisting of exuviae of second-instar female, with patina of white wax and also usually coated with white commensal fungus; exuviae of first instar at anterior margin; body of live female purple.
On microscope slide, 680 to 780 μm long, 500 to 610 μm wide, broadest at metathorax. Body outline broadly oval. Segments VII–VIII fused. Cephalothorax strongly sclerotized at full maturity. Antenna simple, with 4 setae. Anterior spiracle with 1 to 5 trilocular disc pores; posterior spiracle with 1 to 3 pores. (Normark et al. 2025)
General Remarks: Description, illustration, and color photograph by Normark et al. (2025).

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