Prococcus acutissimus

Adult female body very elongate and extremely narrow, 2.5–5.5 mm long, 1.0–2.0 mm wide. Fresh insects creamy-white to yellowish green, older females reddish brown to black. Dorsum with derm strongly sclerotized in older females, with small round or oval clear areas (areolations) present; dorsal setae robust, spine-like and slightly tapering with pointed or bluntly rounded apices. Anal plates each triangular, together quadrate, posterolateral margin slightly longer than anterolateral margin, bearing 1 subdiscal seta and 3 apical setae. Margin with marginal setae slender with pointed apices; each stigmatic cleft containing 3 spines, median spine 3–4 times as long as a lateral spine, both cylindrical with bluntly rounded apices. Multilocular disc pores each primarily with 7 loculi, occasionally with 5–8 loculi, present around genital area and on preceding 2 or 3 abdominal segments. Anogenital fold with 2 pairs of anterior margin setae and 2 pairs of lateral marginal setae.

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