Didesmococcus, Borchsenius

Moghaddam, Masumeh & Watson, Gillian W., 2024, The Scale Insects Of Iran (Hemiptera: Coccomorpha) Part 3 The Soft Scales (Coccidae) And Other Families, Zootaxa 5542 (1), pp. 1-202 : 56

Genus DIDESMOCOCCUS Borchsenius

Didesmococcus Borchsenius, 1953: 281 . Type species: Didesmococcus megriensis Borchsenius [= D. unifasciatus (Archangelskaya) ] by original designation.

Diagnostic characters of the adult female: Slide-mounted, body oval, very strongly convex with a small marginal lip. Dorsal microducts large. Preopercular pores and long setae present in 2 groups: (i) anterior to anal plates, and (ii) on dorsum of head near anterior margin.Antennae each with 9 segments. Legs well developed, each without a tibio-tarsal articulatory sclerosis; claw and tarsal digitules all slender. Anal cleft of moderate depth. Spiracular disc-pores each with 8 or 9 loculi, present in broad band between each spiracle and margin, expanding towards margin and extending along margin just ventral to marginal setae. Pregenital disc-pores mainly each with 10 loculi, numerous around anogenital fold and extending forwards more sparsely onto prothorax. Ventral tubular ducts absent.

Comments: Worldwide, two species are included in Didesmococcus Borchsenius ( García Morales et al. 2016); D. unifasciatus is known from Iran ( Farahbakhsh 1961).