taxonID	type	description	language	source
6239DD14924D6975C02AFEEB57091671.taxon	description	(Fig. 1) Scale of adult female. Scale black; circular, slightly convex, 2.5 – 3.0 mm in diameter; thin and almost transparent along margin; exuviae black, about 1 mm in diameter, placed more or less centrally. Scale of adult male. Colour similar to that of female; oval, 1 mm wide, 1.5 mm long. Young female circular 2 – 2.5 mm in diameter; fully­grown female circular, 4 – 6 mm in diameter. Prosoma reniform and heavily sclerotized at maturity; prosomatic lobes welldeveloped, but posterior apices not exceeding posterior apex of pygidium; margin of prosoma even, without notches or projections; apices of prosomatic lobes rounded. Pygidium with three well­developed lobes; fourth lobes represented by sclerotized projection from the margin, serrated apically. Median lobes longer than second and third lobes; median lobe with one notch on both inner and outer angles; each second lobe with one notch on outer angle; each third lobe with two notches on outer angle. With two fringed plates between median lobes, each slightly longer than lobes; with two plates between median and second lobe, each as long as median lobes; with two plates between second and third lobe, each about twice as long as second lobe, and with four plates between third and fourth lobe, each 2 – 3 times as long as third lobe. One marginal paraphysis placed at basal, outer angle of each of median, second and third lobes. Ducts (each 60 – 65 µm long, 1 – 2 µm wide, inner end 5 – 6 µm wide) extending from base of each plate, including plates between median lobes. Two to eight microducts, each about 20 µm long, placed on apex of each prosomatic lobe; 1 or 2 microducts, similar in structure but about 10 µm, placed on venter near mouthparts. Dorsum. With a pair of transverse scleroses, separated medially, situated at base of pygidium. Anus semi­oval, diameter about 16 µm subequal to length of median lobes; situated at about half distance from pygidium apex to vulva. Dorsal pygidial macroducts one­barred, each about 54 µm long, 4 µm wide; without a macroduct between median lobes; with 45 – 50 macroducts distributed submarginally on segments VIII to IV. Venter. Perivulvar pores absent. Prevulvar scleroses and apophyses absent. Meso­ and metathoracic spiracles without perispiracular disk­pores. Antennal tubercle bearing one seta, about 27 µm long. Material examined	en	Ben-Dov, Yair (2006): Taxonomy of Aonidiella yehudithae sp. nov. and Lindingaspis misrae (Laing) comb. nov. with a key to species of Aonidiella Berlese & Leonardi (Hemiptera: Coccoidea: Diaspididae). Zootaxa 1190 (1190): 51-57
6239DD14924D6975C02AFEEB57091671.taxon	materials_examined	HOLOTYPE female, no. C: 3492 / 17, and 35 female paratypes: GREECE, island of Crete, about 5 km south of Avgeniki, near the road to Agios Thomas, on leaves of Hedera helix, 22. v. 2001, coll. Y. Ben­Dov. Holotype and some paratypes are deposited in the Coccoidea Collection, Department of Entomology, Agricultural Research Organization, Bet Dagan, Israel (ICVI). Other paratypes will be deposited in the Muséum National d’Histoire Naturelle, Paris (MNHN) and in the Natural History Museum, London (BMNH). Ecology Dense populations of A. yehudithae were collected at the type locality on indigenous plants of Hedera helix. The host plant was creeping on the soil, in a natural, undisturbed small forest of oaks, Quercus sp. Etymology This species is named for my wife Yehudith Ben­Dov. Yehudith and I have travelled on many collecting trips in Israel, South Africa, France, Italy, Morocco, Canary Islands, Greece and China as well as on the Island of Crete, where this new species was discovered. Taxonomic comments Morphologically, Aonidiella yehudithae is affiliated to Aonidiella species that are characterized by the absence of perivulvar pores, absence of ventral prevulvar apophyses and scleroses, and in lacking conspicuous sclerotized projections along the margin of the prosoma. It differs from both A. sotetsu (Takahashi) and A. pini Young & Lu in having four plates between the third and fourth lobes, as compared to three plates in these other two species.	en	Ben-Dov, Yair (2006): Taxonomy of Aonidiella yehudithae sp. nov. and Lindingaspis misrae (Laing) comb. nov. with a key to species of Aonidiella Berlese & Leonardi (Hemiptera: Coccoidea: Diaspididae). Zootaxa 1190 (1190): 51-57
6239DD14924F6975C02AFD7354211336.taxon	description	Studies of the above­mentioned specimens showed that the adult female of A. misrae is characterized mainly in: body pyriform; prosoma not produced posteriorly into distinctive lobes; dorsal ducts of the pygidium of two sizes; marginal paraphyses of pygidium well developed, extending as anterior as abdominal segment IV. These characters clearly show that A. misrae does not belong to the genus Aonidiella and warrant its placement in the genus Lindingaspis MacGillivray. Laing (1929) clearly indicated in both the text and illustration that the adult female of A. misrae did not possess perivulvar pores. However, the type­series specimens do possess perivulvar pores in four groups: 8 or 9 disc­pores in each anterior group and 1 – 6 pores in each posterior group. Further comparisons of L. misrae with other species of Lindingaspis showed that Lindingaspis fusca McKenzie, 1943, is morphologically identical with Lindingaspis misrae (Laing, 1929). The description and illustration of the adult female under the name L. fusca by McKenzie (1943, 1950) adequately represents the taxonomic features of L. misrae. Material examined. LECTOTYPE female of Aonidiella misrae Laing (here designated): INDIA, Bihar, Pusa, on Tamarindus indica; additional female and one adult male (BMNH). Two female paratypes of Lindingaspis fusca McKenzie, 1943, INDIA, Maharashtra, Poona [= Pune], on sago palm, Cycas circinalis, collected 1 June, 1932, Harold Compere (Bohart Museum of Entomology, Department of Entomology, University of California, Davis, USA).	en	Ben-Dov, Yair (2006): Taxonomy of Aonidiella yehudithae sp. nov. and Lindingaspis misrae (Laing) comb. nov. with a key to species of Aonidiella Berlese & Leonardi (Hemiptera: Coccoidea: Diaspididae). Zootaxa 1190 (1190): 51-57
