Exaeretopus, Newstead

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 : 66

Genus EXAERETOPUS Newstead

Exaeretopus Newstead, 1894: 204 . Type species: Exaeretopus formiceticola Newstead by monotypy.

Diagnostic characters of the adult female: Live adult female elongate oval; immediately after moulting, yellowish; fully grown adult female yellow with two narrow or broad, longitudinal red stripes on dorsum ( Koteja 1980). Slide-mounted body oval or elongate oval, lacking stigmatic clefts. Anal cleft very short. Marginal setae usually present in more than 1 row; only anterior stigmatic area with a single stigmatic seta, stigmatic spines absent from posterior stigmatic areas. With only 1 pair of long setae present between antennal bases. Ventral tubular ducts vary in shape and size between species; dorsal tubular ducts numerous, present throughout. Legs well developed; each tibia and tarsus freely articulated, with articular sclerosis present; each prothoracic tarsus with a constriction or pseudoarticulation; claw digitules slender, with apical knobs very small; tarsal digitules sharply pointed.Anal plates each triangular, bearing 4 setae.

Comments: Worldwide, 10 species are included in Exaeretopus ( García Morales et al. 2016) ; one species is known from Iran ( Moghaddam & Azad-Bakht 2006).