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Anoplaspis, from New Zealand on Metrosideros; myopori Lidg. from 

 Australia on Myoporum; osmanthi Vail, from France on Olea; pandani 

 Bdv. from India on Pandanus; phormii Sign, from France, Switzerland 

 on Phormium; rubribullata Frogg., (Aspidiella), from west Australia, 

 New South Wales on Eucalyptus; santali Mask., (Diaspis), from New 

 Zealand on Santalum, pear, plum, other fruits; serrata Frogg. from New 

 South Wales on Acacia; and sophorae Mask, from New Zealand on 

 Sophora. The various groups recognized as genera can be separated by 

 means of the following table: 



GENERA OF ASPIDIOTINI 



a. Body of adult female never enclosed in puparium; pygidium of adult 

 female usually with lobes and pectinae or plates, never with pseudo- 

 lobes, never with asymmetrically arranged projections. 

 b. Mesothorax and metathorax never separated by deep transverse 

 constriction. 



c. Pygidium of adult female always with genacerores. 

 d. Pygidium of adult female always with pectinae or plates or 

 with both, sometimes few in number and small, 

 e. Pygidium always without densariae or paraphyses. 



f. Pygidium of adult female always with four or five groups 

 of genacerores. 



g. Pygidium with four pairs of distinct lobes. Type, 

 Aspidiotus subrubescens Mask.__0ctospidioits MacG. 

 gg. Pygidium with less than four pairs of lobes, 

 h. Pygidium always with three pairs of lobes. 



i. Pygidium with mesal portion of caudal margin 

 convex, never with deep square pygidial incis- 

 ion. Evaspidiotus Leon Aspidiotus Bouche. 



ii. Pygidium with mesal portion of caudal margin 

 with deep square pygidial incision with median 

 pair of lobes located in incision. Type, Aspidi- 

 otus excisus Green Temnaspidiotus MacG. 



hh. Pygidium with less than three pairs of lobes. 



i. Pygidium with two pairs of distinct lobes 



Aspidiella Leon. 



ii. Pygidium with single pair of lobes; second and 

 third pairs replaced by short, colorless, plate- 

 like, one or two-toothed projections. Type, 



Aspidiotus corticis-pini Lindgr 



Unaspidiotus MacG. 



ff. Pygidium with two groups of genacerores. 



g. Pygidium with three pairs of lobes. Type, Aspidi- 

 otus corokiae Mask Aspidioides MacG. 



gg. Pygidium with one pair of lobes. Type, Aspidiotus 



implicatus Mask Marlattaspis MacG. 



ee. Pygidium always with densariae or paraphyses. 



