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(
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, stat. rev.
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<emphasis id="B95F4E1EFFD1FFAB1398FCAAFE98FB4A" box="[151,380,1206,1228]" italics="true" pageId="17" pageNumber="18">Chrysomphalus greeni</emphasis>
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.
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material:
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locality:
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(Conakry), UNINA (examined).
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<emphasis id="B95F4E1EFFD1FFAB1398FCC8FEB6FB6C" box="[151,338,1236,1258]" italics="true" pageId="17" pageNumber="18">Melanaspis greeni</emphasis>
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<bibRefCitation id="EFBAEFFDFFD1FFAB12DDFCC8FD95FB6C" author="Lindinger" box="[466,625,1236,1258]" pageId="17" pageNumber="18" refString="Lindinger, L. (1943) Die Schildlausnamen in Fulmeks Wirtindex 1943. (In German). Arbeiten uber Morphologische und Taxonomische Entomologie aus Berlin-Dahlem, 10, 145 - 152." type="journal article" year="1943">Lindinger 1943</bibRefCitation>
: 147
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. Change of combination.
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<emphasis id="B95F4E1EFFD1FFAB1398FCEFFE98FA8F" box="[151,380,1267,1289]" italics="true" pageId="17" pageNumber="18">Chrysomphalus greeni</emphasis>
Leonardi
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: 290
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. Revived combination.
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<emphasis id="B95F4E1EFFD1FFAB1398FD2AFF2BFAC8" bold="true" box="[151,207,1334,1358]" pageId="17" pageNumber="18">Host</emphasis>
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:
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:
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.
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<emphasis id="B95F4E1EFFD1FFAB13C8FD61FEAAFA10" bold="true" box="[199,334,1405,1430]" pageId="17" pageNumber="18">Discussion:</emphasis>
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described
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<emphasis id="B95F4E1EFFD1FFAB1182FD61FC6FFA10" box="[653,907,1405,1430]" italics="true" pageId="17" pageNumber="18">Chrysomphalus greeni</emphasis>
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from specimens found on an unknown plant in
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.
<bibRefCitation id="EFBAEFFDFFD1FFAB13FAFDBDFE51FA3F" author="Lindinger" box="[245,437,1441,1465]" pageId="17" pageNumber="18" refString="Lindinger, L. (1943) Die Schildlausnamen in Fulmeks Wirtindex 1943. (In German). Arbeiten uber Morphologische und Taxonomische Entomologie aus Berlin-Dahlem, 10, 145 - 152." type="journal article" year="1943">Lindinger (1943)</bibRefCitation>
transferred the species to
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,
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and later
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transferred it back to
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<emphasis id="B95F4E1EFFD1FFAB1398FDDAFEA3FA58" box="[151,327,1478,1502]" italics="true" pageId="17" pageNumber="18">Chrysomphalus</emphasis>
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. Upon our request, Professor Antonio Pietro Garonna, curator of the insect collection of the Department of Entomology in Portici,
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, kindly arranged for the loan of specimens of the
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series. Unlike the pygidium of
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<emphasis id="B95F4E1EFFD1FFAB1227FE12FE3CF9A0" box="[296,472,1550,1574]" italics="true" pageId="17" pageNumber="18">Chrysomphalus</emphasis>
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species, which lack a series of short paraphyses anterior to L3 and have conspicuous, long, branched or clubbed plates between L2 and L3 and anterior to L3, the pygidium of
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<emphasis id="B95F4E1EFFD1FFAB1776FE2EFB04F9CC" box="[1145,1248,1586,1610]" italics="true" pageId="17" pageNumber="18">C. greeni</emphasis>
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is similar to that of
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<emphasis id="B95F4E1EFFD1FFAB13BBFE4AFED1F9E8" box="[180,309,1622,1646]" italics="true" pageId="17" pageNumber="18">Melanaspis</emphasis>
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in that: (i) the lateral margin is sclerotized with a series of short paraphyses anterior to L3 and (ii) the plates are short, spine-like and inconspicuous, not exceeding the length of the lobes. Relatively few species of
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<emphasis id="B95F4E1EFFD1FFAB1398FE82FEFCF930" box="[151,280,1694,1718]" italics="true" pageId="17" pageNumber="18">Melanaspis</emphasis>
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have perivulvar pores, including this species. In the key of
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to the North American species of
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,
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<emphasis id="B95F4E1EFFD1FFAB1119FEDFFD60F95C" box="[534,644,1731,1754]" italics="true" pageId="17" pageNumber="18">M. greeni</emphasis>
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would key out to and is most similar to
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<emphasis id="B95F4E1EFFD1FFAB175BFEDEFAB6F95C" box="[1108,1362,1730,1754]" italics="true" pageId="17" pageNumber="18">Melanaspis ponderosa</emphasis>
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, especially in the size and shape of the paraphyses. Of the Afrotropical species of
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<emphasis id="B95F4E1EFFD1FFAB1794FEFAFAF8F978" box="[1179,1308,1766,1790]" italics="true" pageId="17" pageNumber="18">Melanaspis</emphasis>
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,
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<emphasis id="B95F4E1EFFD1FFAB1622FEFBFA78F978" box="[1325,1436,1767,1790]" italics="true" pageId="17" pageNumber="18">M. greeni</emphasis>
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comes closest to
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<emphasis id="B95F4E1EFFD1FFAB1257FF16FDDFF8A4" box="[344,571,1802,1826]" italics="true" pageId="17" pageNumber="18">Melanaspis sansevii</emphasis>
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, a species described from
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on a crucifer, which has perivulvar pores and paraphyses similar to those of
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<emphasis id="B95F4E1EFFD1FFAB11DAFF33FCA4F8C0" box="[725,832,1839,1862]" italics="true" pageId="17" pageNumber="18">M. greeni</emphasis>
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. Peculiarly, L1L3 of
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<emphasis id="B95F4E1EFFD1FFAB1734FF33FB43F8C0" box="[1083,1191,1839,1862]" italics="true" pageId="17" pageNumber="18">M. greeni</emphasis>
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each has a wide basal sclerosis similar to those observed in
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<emphasis id="B95F4E1EFFD1FFAB115BFF4EFCFFF8EC" box="[596,795,1874,1898]" italics="true" pageId="17" pageNumber="18">Pygidiaspis cedri</emphasis>
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; whereas the basal scleroses are normally restricted to the median lobes.
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