Doubling the known endemic species diversity of New Caledonian armored scale insects (Hemiptera, Diaspididae).

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Department of Life Sciences, The Natural History Museum, London, UK Department of Life Sciences, The Natural History Museum London United Kingdom.

Published: August 2018

Fourteen species of armored scale insects are known only from New Caledonia. Here, the adult female of fourteen more are described: , , , , , , , , , , , , , and We note that the diversity of New Caledonian armored scale insects appears to have resulted more from trans-oceanic dispersal than in situ speciation.

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