Valid Names Results

Ferrisidea Borchsenius, 1965 (Diaspididae)

Nomenclatural History

• Ferrisidea Borchsenius 1965: 368. Type species: Aspidiotus dentilobis Cockerell by original designation . accepted valid name

Remarks

• Systematics: Subfamily DIASPIDINAE Tribe LEPIDOSAPHIDINI (Normark, et al., 2019) Ferrisidea can be recognized by the two pairs of lobes and the ventral clusters of very long, very thin tubular ducts on the pygidium (Gill, 1997).
• Structure: Female body ovate, pygidium rounded, two pairs of pygidial lobes, not divided; cristulae large, each with the openings of several very long, narrow tubular ducts; no marginal ducts; dorsal ducts small. Female scale oval, with two larval skins situated in the sub-central part of scale. Scale of male nymph elongate, without sulci; larval skin protruding out of the narrower cephalic end of the scale (Borchsenius, 1965).

Keys

Associated References

• Borchs1965: description, distribution, taxonomy, pp. 368
• Borchs1966: catalog, taxonomy, pp. 158
• Gill1997: description, distribution, taxonomy, pp. 142
• NormarOkMo2019: taxonomy, pp. 51

3 Species