Valid Names Results

Unaspis pallidicolor Takagi, 2023 (Diaspididae: Unaspis)

Unaspis pallidicolor Takagi 2023: 56. Type data: MALAYSIA: Borneo, Sabah: 10/31/1988, by. Holotype, female, by original designation Type depository: Kepong: Forest Research Institute of Malaysia, Selandgor, Malaysia; accepted valid name Illustr.

Systematics: This species is closely similar to U. atricolor, but may be recognized in having the median pygidial lobes more deeply sunken into the apex of the pygidium, as large as the mesal lobule of the second pygidial lobe, roughly serrate on the diverging mesal margins, with the basal scleroses more developed than those of the second and third pygidial lobes. Second and third pygidial lobes with lobules rather oblong. Test pale brownish.
General Remarks: Detailed description and illustration in Takagi, 2023.

Takagi2023: description, diagnosis, histology, illustration, morphology, taxonomy, 56, 62, 75, 79