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Ferrisidea prosopidis (Ferris, 1921) (Diaspididae: Ferrisidea)

Pseudodiaspis prosopidis Ferris 1921: 106-108. Type data: MEXICO: Baja California Sur, La Paz, on unknown host. Holotype, female, Type depository: Davis: The Bohart Museum of Entomology, University of California, California, USA; accepted valid name Illustr.
Ferrisidea prosopidis (Ferris, 1921); Borchsenius 1966: 158. change of combination

Families: 1 | Genera: 1

Countries: 2

Ferris1942: pp.SIV-446:62 ( ) [Key to species of Pseudodiaspis] Key as: Pseudodiaspis prosopidis

Systematics: Ferrisidea prosopidis is similar to F. dentilobis, but differs in the great numbers of small ducts, in the latter resembling F. magna and F. dentilobis, which, however, lack the scleroses of the lobes (Ferris, 1937).
Structure: Female scale up to 3 mm in diameter, circular, quite convex, white, almost porcelaneous in appearance, the exuviae central, but covered with secretion. Adult female quite sclerotic throughout, the body broadly oval, the prosoma somewhat marked off from the postsoma (Ferris, 1937).
General Remarks: Description and illustration by Ferris (1937).