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Fiorinia dinghuensis Wei & Feng, 2013 (Diaspididae: Fiorinia)

Fiorinia dinghuensis Wei & Feng 2013: 97-98. Type data: CHINA: Guangdong Province, Dinghu Mountain, 6/4/1963, by I.O. Chou. Holotype, female, by original designation Type depository: Shaanxi: Entomological Museum of the Northwest Sci-Tech University of Agriculture and Forestry, Baishui, Shaanxi, China; accepted valid name

Families: 1 | Genera: 1

Countries: 1

LiuCaFe2020: pp.397-399 ( Adult (F) ) [Fiorinia in China]
WeiZhFe2013: pp.94-95 ( ) [Key to the adult females of Fiorinia species known from China]

Systematics: Fiorinia dinghuensis can easily be distinguished from other Fiorinia species by the presence of a sclerotized area on the anterior margin of the head. It is similar to F. fioriniae Targioni-Tozzetti, 1867, and F. proboscidaria Green, 1900, in having 2 pairs of pygidial lobes, but can be distinguished by (character states for F. fioriniae in brackets): 1) the presence of 28-32 gland tubercles on the margins of cephalothorax plus abdominal segment I (absent), and 2) absence of gland spines between L1 and L2 (present). F. dinghensis differs from F. proboscidaria by (character states for F. fioriniae in brackets): 1) absence of an inter-antennal process between antennae (with a prominent inter- antennal process), and 2) absence of gland spines on abdominal segments V, VI and VII (present). (Wei, et al., 2013)
Structure: Body outline oval to fusiform. Derm membranous except for pygidium. Antennae present close together on a sclerotized area on anterior margin of body; each with a long seta; without an interantennal process. Anterior spiracles each with 5 trilocular pores; pores absent from posterior spiracles. (Wei, et al., 2013)
General Remarks: Detailed description and illustration in Wei, et al., 2013.