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Cupidaspis beshearae Howell & Tippins, 1977 (Diaspididae: Cupidaspis)

Cupidaspis beshearae Howell & Tippins 1977a: 898-900. Type data: UNITED STATES: Arizona, Grand Canyon, on Juniperus osteosperma, 07/08/1972, by R.J. Beshear. Holotype, female, Type depository: Washington: United States National Entomological Collection, U.S. National Museum of Natural History, District of Columbia, USA; accepted valid name Notes: Paratypes in University of Georgia, VPIC, Auburn, UCDC and BMNH. Illustr.

Families: 1 | Genera: 4

Countries: 1

Systematics: Cupidaspis beshearae can be told from C. cupressi by lacking a dorsal submarginal macroduct on the 6th abdominal segment and by the shape of the submarginal ducts on the prepygidial segments. In C. cupressi these ducts, although much smaller, are the same shape as the pygidial macroducts. In C. beshearae, they are much smaller and noticeably more slender than the pygidial macroducts. In addition, dorsal submedian microducts are present on abdominal segments 3-4 in C. beshearae but are absent in C. cupressi and the position of the anus is usually posterior to the vulva in C. beshearae but anterior to the vulva in C. cupressi (Howell & Tippins, 1977a).
Structure: Female scale 1.0-1.5 mm long, oystershell-shaped, moderately convex, pure white, with yellow or whitish terminal exuviae. Adult female body dark red. Scale covers often irregular and undulated, as a result of conforming with the irregularly shaped host needles. Males elongate, white, smaller than females, with a terminal yellow exuviae (Gill, 1997).
General Remarks: Best description and illustration by Howell & Tippins (1977a).