Abstract
New Caledonia is home to many endemic species of plants and animals. Here, we improve our grasp on that biota by describing five new species of armored scale insects in the genus Andaspis: Andaspis brevicornuta sp. n, A. conica sp. n., A. nothofagi sp. n., A. novaecaledoniae sp. n., and A. ornata sp. n. Each is known exclusively from collections on southern beeches (Nothofagus spp.) in New Caledonia. A key to the species of Andaspis of New Caledonia is provided.
Highlights
New Caledonia is an archipelago located in the South Pacific Ocean east of Australia
Fifty species of armored scale insects and 26 genera have been collected from New Caledonia
We describe five new species of New Caledonian endemic armored scales in the genus Andaspis MacGillivray, a genus which had not yet been recorded from New Caledonia
Summary
New Caledonia is an archipelago located in the South Pacific Ocean east of Australia. Fifty species of armored scale insects and 26 genera have been collected from New Caledonia. We describe five new species of New Caledonian endemic armored scales in the genus Andaspis MacGillivray, a genus which had not yet been recorded from New Caledonia. The following descriptions are based on forty-six slide-mounted specimens of adult female scale insects which had been prepared from material collected by J.
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