Melanaspis inopinata

Adult female pyriform, 1.70–1.85 mm long and 1.49–1.70 mm wide, cephalothorax and anterior abdominal segments without sclerotized area. Female scale cover about 2.5 mm long, robust, subcircular, convex, usually dark brown in central area, greyish brown or dark grey toward edges; larval exuviae eccentric but not marginal, colour dark. Male puparium scale cover oval, about 1.8 mm long, convex anteriorly, flattened at apex, paler than female scale. Anal opening oval, diameter 0.7 times less than width of L1, located relatively high, almost in central area of pygidium. Three papillate appendages (each 2.5 µm long and 1.5 µm wide) present in submarginal area of pygidial segments VI–VIII, situated anteriorly to L1, L2 and third group of paraphyses. Distance from apex of median lobe to anteriormost edge of pygidial sclerotized area 0.2 times body length. Median lobes separated by space 0.2–0.3 times width of median lobe. Marginal area of segment V with 13–19 macroducts along its entire length, each 89–92 µm long. Dorsal macroducts absent between prepygidial segments and head.

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