Leptopulvinaria Kanda, 1960

Leptopulvinaria Kanda, 1960 View in CoL View at ENA

Type species: Leptopulvinaria elaeocarpi Kanda, 1960

Generic diagnosis. Adult female with: (i) body elongate oval or ovate, broadest at thorax or anterior of abdomen; (ii) mature specimens with slight dorsal secretion of powdery or filamentous wax, and ovisac secreted only from ventral surface of abdomen; (iii) dorsal tubular ducts and dorsal microductules frequent, scattered; (iv) dorsal tubercles convex, usually present on submarginal areas but occasionally absent; (v) marginal setae spinose, each with a simple pointed apex and a well-developed basal-socket; (vi) stigmatic clefts each containing 1‒4 (usually 3) stigmatic spines; (vii) multilocular disc-pores each with 9‒11 loculi, present across venter of most abdominal segments; (viii) ventral microducts present; (ix) ventral tubular ducts of 2 types; (x) with 1 or 2 pairs of long ventral setae present medially on all abdominal and thoracic segments (occasionally lacking on thoracic segments); (xi) legs well developed, each with a well-developed tibio-tarsal articulation and an articulatory sclerosis, and claws each without a denticle; and (xii) antennae each with 8 or 9 segments (from Hodgson 1994 and Tanaka & Amano 2008).