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Paraparlagena ifanadiana Mamet, 1959 (Diaspididae: Paraparlagena)

Paraparlagena ifanadiana Mamet 1959a: 452-454. Type data: MADAGASCAR: Ifanadiana, Ranomafana, on undermined plant, ?/12/1954, by R. Paulian. Holotype, female, Type depository: Paris: Museum National d'Histoire naturelle, France; accepted valid name Illustr.

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Systematics: Takagi (2003a) stated that the "adult female" described and illustrated represented the second instar male of some diaspidid, of which the adult female may have been unknown.
Structure: Female scale very small, elongate, fairly convex, pure white. Exuviae terminal, yellowish. Anterior portion of scale concealed by the walls of the minute pits in which the species lives; only the posterior portion of the scale protrudes from the pits. Adult female elongate, about 0.7 mm long, membranous except for the pygidium. Pygidium with 3 pairs of well-developed, irregular lobes. Median lobes largest, notched once or twice on both outer and inner margins, well separated from each other, with a pair of gland spines between their bases (Mamet, 1959a).
General Remarks: Detailed description and illustration by Mamet (1959a).