Ceroplastes sinensis

Slide-mounted adult female body oval, convex, with shallow stigmatic clefts. Body length 4.0 mm (range 2.0–7.0), width 3.5 mm (range 2.0–6.0), height 3.0 mm (range 1.5–5.0). Derm with eight clear areas, each without setae except cephalic area with 1 or 2 cylindrical setae. Dorsal setae cylindrical with rounded or pointed apex, length 4.5–11.5 µm. Stigmatic clefts shallow, each with 18–54 hemispherical, bullet-shaped or lanceolate spiracular setae (most 8–26 µm long); each group with 20–30 setae along margin and 4–6 larger setae, largest 16–24 µm long and 14–17 µm wide, sometimes bent. Submarginal setae more frequent than marginal setae, each 7–15 µm long. Tibia 1.4 times length of tarsus, with tibio-tarsal articulatory sclerosis. Anal plates each with 3 large dorsal setae on posterior quarter plus a smaller apical seta. Anal lobe with 3 or 4 anal lobe setae, longest 40–50 µm long. Simple microducts about 1 µm wide, with lightly sclerotised orifice, frequent in narrow band around submargin. Spiracles: anterior peritreme width 50–64 µm, posterior peritreme width 58–76 µm. Pores mostly trilocular, of three main types: oval trilocular, triangular trilocular, and bilocular. Ventral tubular ducts present in groups on head and around anogenital fold.

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