Valid Names Results

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

Austraspis relicta Normark, Normark, and Amouroux 2025: 9. Type data: In life, on underside of leaf, tucked into revolute leaf margin near base of leaf, or along midrib; scale cover elongate, white, with tan exuviae of first instar at anterior end; scale cover consisting of 3 nested layers of similar size: visible white scale cover of second instar, exuviae of second instar, thin white scale cover of adult female; body of live female white, becoming lavender. On microscope slide (Fig. 10, n = 2), 1.1 mm long, 0.5 to 0.6 mm wide, broadest at mesothorax or metathorax. Body outline oval; cuticle remaining membranous. Abdominal segments VII–VIII fused. Antenna simple, with 4 setae. Anterior spiracle with 13 to 16 quinquelocular disc pores; posterior spiracle with 9 to 13 pores. Derm of submedial areas of venter beset with minute spicules from prothorax to abdominal segment V or VI. (Normark et al. 2025). Holotype, female, by original designation Type depository: Santiago, Museo Nacional de Historia Natural de Chile, Santiago, Chile ; accepted valid name Illustr.

Families: 1 | Genera: 1

Countries: 1

Systematics: urn:lsid:zoobank.org:act:874D2EA8-010E-4BDD-AD3D-5B239D7337D FA. relicta is very similar to the other 2 species that feed on Drimys; for a discussion of how to distinguish them, see the remarks under A. foye. (Normark et al. 2025)
Structure: In life, on underside of leaf, tucked into revolute leaf margin near base of leaf, or along midrib; scale cover elongate, white, with tan exuviae of first instar at anterior end; scale cover consisting of 3 nested layers of similar size: visible white scale cover of second instar, exuviae of second instar, thin white scale cover of adult female; body of live female white, becoming lavender. On microscope slide, 1.1 mm long, 0.5 to 0.6 mm wide, broadest at mesothorax or metathorax. Body outline oval; cuticle remaining membranous. Abdominal segments VII–VIII fused. Antenna simple, with 4 setae. Anterior spiracle with 13 to 16 quinquelocular disc pores; posterior spiracle with 9 to 13 pores. Derm of submedial areas of venter beset with minute spicules from prothorax to abdominal segment V or VI. (Normark et al. 2025)
General Remarks: Description, illustration, and color photograph by Normark et al. (2025).

NormarNoCa2025: DNA sequencing, description, distribution, host, illustration, key, phylogeny, taxonomy, 9