Normark, B.B., Normark, R.D., Garcia Morales, M., Claps, L.E., & Amouroux, P. 2025 Identity of the native South American armored scale insect species (Hemiptera: Coccomorpha: Diaspididae) widely misidentified as the North American species Diaspidiotus ancylus Putnam. Annals of the Entomological Society of America XX(X): 1-13

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Notes: Molecular and morphological evidence both indicate that Chilean scale insect populations previously identified as D. ancylus actually belong to the recently described species Clavaspis patagonensis, previously known only from a single locality in Argentina. This work redescribes C. patagonensis with a distribution map and a guide to distinguish it from D. ancylus. https://doi.org/10.1093/aesa/saaf027

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