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Rungaspis macrolobis Kaussari, 1958 (Diaspididae: Rungaspis)

Rungaspis macrolobis Kaussari 1958: 229. Type data: IRAN: Bandar Abbas, on Anabasis aphylla.. Lectotype, female, by subsequent designation (BenDov1980,267). Type depository: Paris: Museum National d'Histoire naturelle, France; accepted valid name Illustr.

Families: 3 | Genera: 7

Countries: 2

Structure: Female scale pale, placed within bark cracks of the host plant. Male scale unknown (Kaussari, 1958). Female scale circular or slightly oval, about 1.5 mm long; colour white; exuviae placed centrally; scales concealed under the thin, dry cork layers of twigs. Males present (Ben-Dov, 1980). Slide-mounted adult female quadrate; prosoma sclerotized at maturity. Anterior and with 1 pair of well-developed lobes (L1), convergent, each lobe with pointed apex and well-developed basal sclerosis, strongly notched on outer margin. Plates small, spiniform, sometimes present between L1; each side with 2 plates in each interlobular space. (Moghaddam & Watson, 2021)
General Remarks: Description and illustration of adult female by Ben-Dov (1980).

BenDov1980: description, distribution, host, illustration, taxonomy, 266-268
BenDov2012: catalog, distribution, host, 32, 43
BenDovGe2003: catalog, 754-755
Borchs1966: catalog, 280
DanzigPe1998: catalog, 352
Kaussa1958: description, distribution, host, illustration, taxonomy, 229-230
Moghad2004: distribution, host, 19
Moghad2013a: distribution, host, 51
MoghadWa2021: diagnosis, distribution, host, illustration, key, taxonomy, 215, 217-218, 250