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Kilifia deltoides De LottoNOMENCLATURE:
Kilifia deltoides De Lotto, 1965a: 208. Type data: KENYA: Kilifi, on Mangifera indica. Holotype female. Type depository: London: The Natural History Museum, England, UK. Described: female.
HOSTS: Anacardiaceae: Anacardium occidentale [DeLott1965a], Mangifera indica [DeLott1965a]. Lauraceae: Cinnamomum [Matile1978]. Myrtaceae: Callistemon [BenDov1979], Eugenia [DeLott1965a], Psidium guajava [BenDov1979]. Pteridaceae: Adiantum fergonosi [BenDov1979].
DISTRIBUTION: Afrotropical: Comoros; Kenya [DeLott1965a]; Tanzania; Zanzibar [DeLott1965a]. Oriental: Indonesia (Java). Oriental: Malaysia (Sarawak).
GENERAL REMARKS: Description and illustration of the adult female given by De Lotto (1965a) and by Ben-Dov (1979).
STRUCTURE: Live young adult female flat, emerald-green in colour, with some black or very dark brown minute dots set in irregular radiating rows near the margin of the body; old female flattish, colour evenly dark borown (De Lotto, 1965a).
KEYS: Tang 1991: 107 (female) [Asia]; Ben-Dov 1979: 312 (female) [World].
CITATIONS: BenDov1979 [taxonomy, description, illustration, host, distribution: 319-320]; BenDov1993 [catalogue: 152]; DeLott1965a [taxonomy, description, illustration, host, distribution: 208-210]; Matile1978 [host, distribution: 43]; Tang1991 [taxonomy, description, host, distribution: 108-109].
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