Selenomphalus distylii Takagi

Suh, Soo-Jung, 2016, Armored scales (Hemiptera: Diaspididae) from warm temperate forests in Korea, Insecta Mundi 2016 (500), pp. 1-6 : 4

Selenomphalus distylii Takagi ( Figures 8–9 )

Selenomphalus distylii Takagi, 1959: 112 . Type data: Japan, on Distylium racemosum .

Diagnosis. Adult female cover brown, slightly convex, subcircular ( Takagi 1959). Adult female turbinate with three pairs of lobes. Median lobes broad, flatly rounded along the apical margin, separated by a space slightly narrower than 1/3 width of one median lobe; lobe 2 smaller than the median lobes; lobe 3 spur-shaped, heavily sclerotized. Paraphyses present, small, slender from basal corners of each lobe. Plates fimbriate; 2 in 1 st space and 2 nd space respectively, slender; 3 in 3 rd space, outer two broad; 7 laterad of lobe 3, broad. Pygidial macroducts elongate, with two to three longitudinal rows on each side, eight to ten ducts in rows each. Antenna with 1 seta. Anterior and posterior spiracles without pores. Perivulvar pores in 4 groups, about 23 pores in total.

Material examined. Korea. JJ: Andeokgyegok, 2 adult females, on Neolitsea sericea , leaf, x-4-2001 (S.M. Oh).

Distribution. Japan ( Kawai 1980), * Korea.

Figures

Figures 1–9. Species of armored scales new to Korea.1–2: Andaspis recurrens, 1) female, 2) pygidium. 3–4: Hypaspidiotus jordani, 3) female, 4) pygidium. 5–7: Lepidosaphes kamakurensis, 5) habitus, 6) female, 7) pygidium. 8–9: Selenomphalus distylii, 8) female, 9) pygidium.