Lepidosaphes laterochitinosa Green, 1925

Suh, Soo-Jung & Hyun, Ik-Hwa, 2015, A preliminary checklist of scale insects (Hemiptera: Coccoidea) intercepted in Korea on dracaena and ficus plants (Asparagales: Asparagaceae, Rosales: Moraceae) imported from southern Asia, Insecta Mundi 2015 (432), pp. 1-13 : 4-5

Lepidosaphes laterochitinosa Green

Diagnosis. Adult female cover oyster-shell shaped, brown with lighter periphery; shed skins marginal, light brown. Body elongate, fusiform with two defined pairs of lobes, third and fourth lobes represented by series of small points; dorsal submarginal macroducts present on segment seven, distinctly smaller than other dorsal pygidial macroducts; cuticle of head with numerous tiny spines; with four pores near each anterior spiracles, posterior spiracles without pores; perivulvar pores present in 5 groups.

Korea quarantine notes. This species was intercepted 32 times; Indonesia, Malaysia, Philippines, Vietnam, Taiwan (Dracaena).