Metaleurodicus

Puparium outline oval, 0.8–1.25 mm long, 0.5–0.87 mm wide, generally widest at abdominal segment II/III or IV. Margin smooth but with short fine folds running mesad, giving a false impression of contiguous marginal teeth. Dorsal disc generally flat and smooth, abdominal segments often with a slightly developed median rhachis without lateral arms. Outer submargin with 12 pairs of hair-like setae. A pair of posterior marginal setae and a pair of eighth abdominal setae present. Operculum much wider than long, laterally rounded, posteriorly sinuate with a pair of stout marginal setae, its surface finely spinulose except anteriorly and medially. Lingula head tongue-shaped, its apex slightly protruding beyond vasiform orifice, densely covered by seta-like spinules, bearing four stout setae. Ventral abdominal setae each longer and finer than any dorsal seta. Legs robust, two-segmented, smooth, each with a pronounced apical claw. Antennae reaching articulations of middle legs or bases of fore legs, their bases anteromesal or anterolateral to fore legs.

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