Kuwania Cockerell

Watson, Gillian W., 2022, Towards identification of the scale insects (Hemiptera: Coccomorpha) of continental Africa: 2. Checklists and keys to six archaeococcoid families, Zootaxa 5105 (3), pp. 301-356 : 305

publication ID	https://doi.org/10.11646/zootaxa.5105.3.1
publication LSID	lsid:zoobank.org:pub:187B04D7-4C35-4E27-9B2D-A616BF59F380
DOI	https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.6343162
persistent identifier	https://treatment.plazi.org/id/03D687D0-FFA2-985E-19E8-CB1DFB01E30C
treatment provided by	Plazi
scientific name	Kuwania Cockerell
status

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Genus Kuwania Cockerell

Kuwania oligostigma View in CoL is unique in the Kuwaniidae because the adult female lacks abdominal spiracles and has a tuft of capitate (not clubbed) setae at the distal end of each tibia, and tubular ducts (absent from other species of Kuwania ) ( De Lotto 1959; Wu et al. 2013); see also the notes above. The species has only been collected once, in Kenya ( Makueni County, Sultan Hamud), and is of no economic importance ( De Lotto 1959).