Luzulaspis australis (Maskell, 1894) Figs 3c, 4

Material.

K 861, Indonesia, New Guinea, vicinity of Jayapura, Entrop, under leaf sheathes of a Poaceae grass, 30.X. 2011, I.A. Gavrilov-Zimin.

New data.

2n = 18; bisexual reproduction with a Lecanoid heterochromatinization in male embryos. The eggs are laid in a long wax ovisac at the stage of late anatrepsis; i.e. incomplete ovoviviparity is characteristic of the species. Female reproductive system has the usual structure (Fig. 4).

Comments.

The genus Luzulaspis Cockerell, 1902 comprises about 25 species, but only one of them, European L. dactylis Green, 1928, has been thus far studied cytogenetically (Gavrilov 2004). This species was found to have 2n = 18 and a bisexual reproduction with a Lecanoid heterochromatinization as well as presently studied Australasian L. australis .