Valid Names Results

Ferrisia uzinuri Kaydan & Gullan, 2012 (Pseudococcidae: Ferrisia)

Nomenclatural History

• Ferrisia uzinuri Kaydan & Gullan 2012: 48-50. Type data: BAHAMAS: Paradise Is., Atlantis Hotel, on Conocarpus erectus, 7/?/2002, by R. Warkentin. Holotype, female, by original designation Type depository: Davis: The Bohart Museum of Entomology, University of California, California, USA; accepted valid name Illustr.

Common Names

Ecological Associates

Hosts:

Families: 7 | Genera: 8

Geographic Distribution

Keys

• KaydanGu2012: pp.11-12 ( Adult (F) ) [Key to species of Ferrisia based on adult females]

Remarks

• Systematics: urn:lsid:zoobank.org:act:ECC88117-299B-4944-94F9-3371DFBD49F6

  Dr Uzi Nur sent adult male specimens of this and other Ferrisia species to the late Dr John (Jack) W. Beardsley for study. Beardsley found morphological differences among the adult males of the samples that Nur identified as different species based on enzyme electrophoresis. For Nur’s species FK (our F. uzinuri), Beardsley reported that the adult male was the most distinctive of all of the species, being distinctly smaller, with relatively short antennae, and short setae on the legs and antennae (J.W. Beardsley, in letter to U. Nur, 9 March 1979). In further correspondence Nur noted that his species FK was so far known only from Florida and that live females "look the least virgata-like, since they lack the characteristic dark body color and markings. In other respects such as body shape and glass-like long wax filaments, they are similar to the others. Moreover, in their enzymes they are also not much more dissimilar than most of the other species to one another." (U. Nur in letter to J.W. Beardsley, 26 March 1979). (Kaydan & Gullan, 2012) Ferrisia uzinuri is similar to F. virgata and F. kondoi but the adult female has a shorter body than adult females of these two species, and slide-mounted specimens of F. uzinuri can be distinguished most readily by lacking clusters of small oral-collar tubular ducts on the ventral margins of the abdominal segments (usually present on segments VI-VIII or VII-VIII for F. kondoi and on VII-VIII for F. virgata) and generally shorter dorsal setae (up to 38 ìm long in F. uzinuri, compared with up to 60 ìm long in F. kondoi and up to 65 ìm long in F. virgata). The adult female of F. uzinuri also differs from that of F. virgata in the position of the discoidal pores which, if present near a duct, are always adjacent to the duct opening for both enlarged ducts and ventral oral-collar tubular ducts (discoidal pores never adjacent to duct openings in F. virgata). This species also shares some morphological similarity with F. malvastra and F. terani, but can be separated from these species by having more (always more than 2) multilocular disc pores ventrally on abdominal segment VI. (Kaydan & Gullan, 2012)

• Structure: Ferrisia uzinuri can be diagnosed by the following combination of features: absence of clusters of small oral-collar tubular ducts on ventral margins of all abdominal segments; ventral oral-collar tubular ducts often with a discoidal pore touching rim, pore sometimes indistinct and usually only slightly smaller than opening of associated duct; dorsal enlarged tubular ducts totalling 63-117 throughout dorsum, rim of each duct usually with 1 or 2 oval discoidal pores typically adjacent to duct opening; auxiliary setae short (12-28, usually =20, µm long) and slender; dorsal setae scarce, scattered and very short compared with ventral setae, each 12-38 (mostly 20-30) µm long; multilocular disc-pores on venter of abdominal segments VI (5-9), VII (12-27), and VIII + IX (12-23); anal lobe cerarii each with 2 conical setae; both pairs of ostioles present but anterior pair weakly developed. (Kaydan & Gullan, 2012)
• General Remarks: Detailed description and illustration in Kaydan & Gullan, 2012,

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