Published online by Cambridge University Press: 31 May 2012
Ripersia arizonensis, n. sp.
♀ enclosed in a broadly oval snow-white waxy sac, about .3 mm. long, 2 mm. wide, 1½ mm. high, sac widest between middle and caudal end.
♀ oval, about one-third longer than broad, shiny, light purplish-brown, about .3 mm. long. When boiled in K. H. O. turns reddish-brown. Derm colourless, with numerous bristles scattered over the dorsum. Antennæ 6-jointed: 6 longest, joint 4 shortest; formula 6, 1, 2, 3, 5, 4. Each joint with several hairs, joint 6 quite bristly.