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Clavaspis selvatica Wei, Schneider, Normark & Normark, 2021 (Diaspididae: Clavaspis)

Clavaspis selvatica Wei, Schneider, Normark & Normark 2021: 4. Type data: PANAMA: Parque Nacional San Lorenzo Canopy Crane, Colón (9.2802°N, 79.9754°W); on Embothrium coccineum; 1/15/2015; by DA Peterson, GE Morse, H Shapiro, S Trujillo leg. Holotype, female, by original designation Type depository: Panama: Museo de Invertebrados G. B. Fairchild, Panamá City, Panamá; accepted valid name Notes: Paratypes: • 1 adult female with second-instar exuviae; same data as holotype; USNM (D6581A); • 2 adult females; same data as holotype; UMEC (D6581B, D6581E). Illustr.

Families: 2 | Genera: 2

Countries: 1

Systematics: http://zoobank.org/CDB99B24-3013-45F7-AA42-FE31CA298219
This species is most similar in appearance to C. coursetiae (Marlatt) with subtle differences distinguishing the two. Submarginal groups of microducts form a semicircle around the head, thorax, and pre-pygidial abdominal segments of C. selvatica but are more diffusely scattered in C. coursetiae, not organized in an obvious semicircular ring. In i>C. selvatica, at least two large macroducts are present on the mesothorax, while in C. coursetiae only one at most is present, falling near the posterior margin of the mesothorax. The plates are nearly as long as L1 and fringed in i>C. selvatica but are short and simple in C. coursetiae. This species is also similar to C. subsimilis (Cockerell) in body shape and the shape of L1 but can be distinguished by possessing perivulvar pores on the pygidium (absent in C. subsimilis). (Wei, et al., 2021)
Structure: Adult female not pupillarial. Slide-mounted adult female 670–1450 μm long (holotype 670), 560–1100 μm wide (holotype 560), broadest at mesothorax or metathorax. Body outline turbinate to nearly oval. Derm membranous throughout at maturity except for pygidium. Antennae simple, each with one long seta. (Wei, et al., 2021)
General Remarks: Detailed description and illustration in Wei, et al., 2021

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