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Acanthocasuarina diminutae

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Kingdom
  
Animalia

Class
  
Insecta

Suborder
  
Sternorrhyncha

Phylum
  
Arthropoda

Order
  
Hemiptera

Family
  
Triozidae

Acanthocasuarina diminutae is a species of jumping plant lice, first found on plants of the Allocasuarina genus in Australia. The species is characterised by exhibiting an elongate habitus; short Rs and short cubital forewing cells; ventral genal processes beneath the apical margin of its vertex; short antennae; and nymphs that are elongate and very sclerotised (scale-like). It possesses rhinaria on its fourth, sixth, eighth and ninth antennal segments; the species' hind tibia has one outer and two inner spurs, while the female's proctiger carries an apical hook posteriorly.

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