Valid Names Results

Ferrisidea dentilobis (Cockerell, 1898) (Diaspididae: Ferrisidea)

Nomenclatural History

• Aspidiotus (Pseudodiaspis) dentilobis Cockerell 1898j: 438-439. Type data: MEXICO: Morelos, Cuautla, on unidentified shrub, 31/05/1897, by Koebele. Syntypes, female, Type depository: Washington: United States National Entomological Collection, U.S. National Museum of Natural History, District of Columbia, USA; accepted valid name
• Pseudodiaspis dentilobis (Cockerell, 1898); Cockerell 1899n: 27. change of combination
• Hemiberlesia dentilobis (Cockerell, 1898); Leonardi 1900: 338. change of combination
• Aspidiotus dentilobis Cockerell, 1898; Cockerell 1905: 45. change of combination
• Pseudodiaspis dentilobia (Cockerell, 1898); MacGillivray 1921: 364. change of combination
• Ferrisidea dentiloba (Cockerell, 1898); Borchsenius 1966: 158. change of combination
• Ferrisidea dentilobis (Cockerell, 1898); Miller & Gimpel 2003. revived combination (previously published)

Common Names

Ecological Associates

Hosts:

Families: 1 | Genera: 2

Associates:

Families: 1 | Genera: 1

Geographic Distribution

Keys

• Ferris1942: pp.SIV-446:62 ( ) [Key to species of Pseudodiaspis] Key as: Pseudodiaspis dentilobis
• MacGil1921: pp.364 ( Adult (F) ) [Key to species of Pseudodiaspis] Key as: Pseudodiaspis dentilobia
• Cocker1905: pp.45 ( ) [Key to Mexican species of Aspidiotus] Key as: Aspidiotus dentilobis

Remarks

• Systematics: Ferrisidea dentiloba is similar to F. magna, but there is a distinct difference in the shape of the lobes. Lobes of F. dentilobis having the lateral margins parallel and the tips distinctly truncate. The ducts of F. dentilobis are much more slender than in F. magna (Ferris, 1921).
• Structure: Female scale oval, 2.5 mm long, convex, with exuviae lateral, but within marginal limits, black, with greyish concentric striation, margin often white; exuviae large, first skin at margin of second, second skin more or less covered by blackish secretion or more often exposed, two skins both deep orange. Male scale elongate with larval skins at one end. Adult female colorless and transparent after boiling except the caudal portion which is striated and chitinized and remains yellowish brown (Cockerell, 1898j).
• General Remarks: Description and illustration by Ferris (1921).

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