Coccus pseudomagnoliarum

Adult female elongate oval, slightly convex. Live young adult female dorsum grey mottled with dark brown; older specimens mottled with dark grey. Slide-mounted body oval, with distinct stigmatic clefts. Anal plates together quadrate, each plate with 4 apical setae. Marginal setae curved or straight, with simple pointed or spatulate apices, numbering 14–21 between anterior and posterior spiracular clefts on each side. Stigmatic clefts very shallow, each containing 3 stigmatic setae, with median seta 2 or 3 times longer than a lateral seta. Ventral tubular ducts each with a long narrow inner ductule ending in a terminal gland, a few present on submarginal areas of posterior abdomen, absent from near coxae. Three pregenital segments each with a pair of long setae.

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