Crypticerya rosae

Adult female elliptical, 3.6–4.0 mm long, 3.0–3.4 mm wide. Body broadly oval, densely covered with a short secretion forming a series of close plaits around the margin. Beneath the wax, head and thorax black with red around the margins; abdominal dorsal and ventral surfaces bright red. Segments clearly marked; abdomen with a broad rounded subdorsal ridge. Antennae 11-segmented, setae on apical segment up to 200 µm long. Short hair-like setae evenly scattered on dorsal surface, longest setae around ventral margins. Simple multilocular pores, 6–8 µm in diameter, with bilocular to trilocular centre and 6–9 outer loculi, on ventral margins of head and thorax. Simple multilocular pores, 10–11 µm in diameter, with bilocular centre and 5–8 outer loculi on ventromedial head and thorax. Simple multilocular pores, 10–11 µm in diameter, with trilocular centre (appearing elongate) and 6–10 outer loculi, scattered across ventromedial to submedial abdomen. Pores with trilocular centre found mostly on dorsal head. Adult females form neither an ovisac nor a marsupium.

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