Anapulvinaria, 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 : 40

Genus ANAPULVINARIA Borchsenius

Anapulvinaria Borchsenius, 1952b: 300 . Type species: Pulvinaria pistaciae Bodenheimer by monotypy and original designation.

Diagnostic characters of the adult female: Live adult female broadly oval to circular with fairly short anal cleft, dorsum slightly convex; secreting a large, flat, elliptical ovisac. Slide-mounted, body with spiracular pore bands narrow, stigmatic clefts not developed. Stigmatic setae sometimes slightly differentiated, bluntly spinose, of similar lengths, subequal with or shorter than marginal setae, numbering 0−2 per stigmatic area. Marginal setae bluntly spinose, sometimes slightly curved. Dorsal setae slender to strongly conical or absent. Preopercular pores absent. Dorsal tubular ducts each with inner ductule ending with a large terminal gland. Ventral tubular ducts abundant throughout. Legs well developed; each claw without a denticle. Anal plates together approximately quadrate, but with outer angles rounded and posterolateral margins convex.

Comments: At present, Anapulvinaria is a monotypic genus; the only species, described from Israel, also occurs in Iran ( García Morales et al. 2016).