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Myrtaspis kedahana Takagi, 2020 (Diaspididae: Myrtaspis)

Myrtaspis kedahana Takagi 2020: 33. Type data: MALAYA: Tanjon Batu Hampur, Kedah, on Eugenia grandis, 11/7/1991, by S. Takagi. Holotype, female, by original designation Type depository: Kepong: Forest Research Institute of Malaysia, Selandgor, Malaysia; accepted valid name Illustr.

Families: 1 | Genera: 1

Countries: 1

Systematics: This species is similar to other species of Mytaspis. It may be distinguishable from all of them in the lateral macroducts well represented not only on the prepygidial postsoma but usually also on the prosoma as anteriorly as the prothorax. This species is broadly variable in the median and lateral trullae, which show opposite extremes and two intermediates. (Takagi, 2020)
Structure: Adult female. Median trullae robust, larger than mesal lobule of second trulla (even when the latter is well developed), parallel or nearly so to each other. Second and third trullae with lobules well developed or reduced to depressed processes. Anterior spiracles each with cluster of disc pores small to moderate in size; posterior spiracles each with a few to several disc pores. Perivulvar disc pores not numerous. This species may be related to the four species mentioned in Section 3.1–3.4. It may be distinguishable from all of them in the lateral macroducts well represented not only on the prepygidial postsoma but usually also on the prosoma as anteriorly as the prothorax. (Takagi, 2020)
General Remarks: Detailed description and illustration in Takagi, 2020

Takagi2020: description, diagnosis, distribution, host, illustration, taxonomy, 33-34, 69-70