Valid Names Results

Fiorinia biakana Williams & Watson, 1988 (Diaspididae: Fiorinia)

Nomenclatural History

• Fiorinia biakana Williams & Watson 1988: 115-116. Type data: INDONESIA: Irian Jaya, Biak, on unidentified tree, 22/05/1959. Holotype, female, Type depository: Honolulu: Bernice P. Bishop Museum, Department of Entomology Collection, Hawaii, USA; accepted valid name Illustr.

Common Names

Ecological Associates

Geographic Distribution

Keys

• WatsonWiMi2015: pp.298-299 ( Adult (F) ) [Fiorinia in the Australasian, Nearctic and Neotropical Regions]
• WilliaWa1988: pp.115 ( Adult (F) ) [Key to species of Fiorinia]

Remarks

• Systematics: Fiorinia biakana is close to F. proboscidaria, but differs in having the median lobes wider apart, the marginal ducts wider and the ventral marginal duct tubercles separated into segmental groups instead of in a continuous row (Williams & Watson, 1988).
• Structure: Female scale about 2.0 mm long, elongate with median dorsal ridge, pale brown, covered in translucent white wax, exuviae terminal, same color. Adult female elongate, 1.65 mm long, sides parallel, curving posteriorly to a truncated pygidium and anteriorly to a pointed head with a prominent interantennal process that is elongate (Williams & Watson, 1988).
• General Remarks: Best description and illustration by Williams & Watson (1988).

Illustrations

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