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Wathondara Wang, et al., 2015 (Ortheziidae)

Wathondara Wang, et al. 2015: 1. Type species: Wathondara kotejai Simon, Szwedo and Xia by original designation . accepted valid name

Systematics: The LSID for this publication is: urn:lsid:zoobank.org:pub: 01114A99-586C-4BAD-9F84-4E3FDBFFD86F Wathondara is is the only Mesozoic record of an adult female scale insect. It is unambiguously referable to Ortheziidae, as evidenced by its general habitus with its body covered with wax plates, ensign-like ovisac, stalked eyes, and well-developed legs. (Wang, et al., 2015)
Structure: Adult body elongate oval, 6 mm long, 2 mm wide (with ovisac). Antenna about 1.2 mm long, inserted ventrally at frontal margin, with eight segments.
Biology: Wathondara represents the earliest unequivocal direct evidence of brood care in the insect fossil record and demonstrates a remarkably conserved egg-brooding reproductive strategy within scale insects in stasis for nearly 100 million years.
General Remarks: Detailed description and illustration in Wang, et al., 2015.