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SUBMITTER: Hamilton FB
PROVIDER: S-EPMC5672737 | biostudies-literature | 2017
REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature
ZooKeys 20170822 693
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 <i>Andaspis</i>: <i>Andaspis brevicornuta</i><b>sp. n</b>, <i>A. conica</i><b>sp. n.</b>, <i>A. nothofagi</i><b>sp. n.</b>, <i>A. novaecaledoniae</i><b>sp. n.</b>, and <i>A. ornata</i><b>sp. n.</b> Each is known exclusively from collections on southern beeches (<i>Nothofagus</i> spp.) in New Caledonia. A key to the spec ...[more]