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Pinnaspis
Sign in to savePinnaspis, first described by Theodore Dru Alison Cockerell in 1892, is a genus of scale insects belonging to the family Diaspididae, or armored scale insects. There are currently 42 species within the genus Pinnaspis.
Museum specimens
- Specimen records
- 113
- With media
- 97
- Family
- Diaspididae
- Collections
- GUAM, USNM, NHMUK
- Recorded in
- Cnmi, Yemen, Sri Lanka, Saint Helena, Australia, Hong Kong, Brazil, Nigeria
Wikidata facts
- Instance of
- taxon
- Parent taxon
- Diaspididae
- Image
- Pinnaspis uniloba.png
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- Pinnaspis
- topic's main category
- Category:Pinnaspis
- taxon name
- Pinnaspis
- taxon rank
- genus
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Encyclopedic overview
8 sectionsContents
- Description
- Biology
- Distribution
- Importance
- List of species
- Notes on species in ''Pinnaspis''
- References
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Pinnaspis, first described by Theodore Dru Alison Cockerell in 1892, is a genus of scale insects belonging to the family Diaspididae, or armored scale insects. There are currently 42 species within the genus Pinnaspis.
==Description== thumb|Pygidium of Pinnaspis buxi illustrates medial zygosis and macroduct shape. In this genus the median lobes are parallel and united by a medial zygosis. Two-barred macroducts, a bi-lobed or absent second lobe, and gland spines, rather than fringed plates between pygidial lobes, and lobed pre-pygidial abdominal segments are characteristic of Pinnaspis.
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