Two more new species of armoured scale insect (Hemiptera: Sternorrhyncha: Coccoidea: Diaspididae) from Fiji
Author
Łagowska, Bozena
text
Zootaxa
2012
3384
60
67
journal article
10.5281/zenodo.213553
62739afc-dbfd-4b5d-8254-69a74f06f780
1175-5326
213553
Serenaspis rhaphidophorae
(Williams & Watson)
Chionaspis rhaphidophorae
Williams & Watson: Williams & Watson, 1988a
: 90.
Serenaspis rhaphidophorae
(Williams & Watson)
is very close to
S.
minima
(Maskell)
, currently only known from
New Zealand
, sharing the presence of: (i) duct tubercles as far forward as at least the mesothorax, (ii) spiracular disc-pores associated with both anterior and posterior spiracles. and (iii) median lobes close together, with inner margins more or less parallel along most of their length and lacking a strong yoke linking the lobes together. On this basis,
C. rhaphidophorae
has been transferred to
Serenaspis.