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A new scale insect genus from Hong Kong : another clue to the Rugaspidiotini-problem (Sternorrhyncha : Coccoidea : Diaspididae)
Sadao Takagi, Jon H. Martin
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Abstract
Nanhaiospis chiuillngensis, n. gen. and n. sp., is described on the basis of material collec ted on an undetermined bamboo in the Chiulung [Kowloon] Pen insula, opposite Hong Kong Island. Rugaspidiotlls communis Hu, 1987, which occurs on reed in Hainan Island, is transferred to the new genus (Nanhaiaspis communis, 11. comb.) on the supposition thaL it should be characterized nearly the same as N. ci1iulungensis, in contradi ction to the original description. Referable to the Diaspidini but not to the Rugaspidiotini, Nanhaiaspis ean be an incipient rugaspidiotine in having much reduced pygidial appendages and
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