Valid Names Results

Fiorinia distinctissima (Newstead, 1896) (Diaspididae: Fiorinia)

Nomenclatural History

• Parlatoria distinctissima Newstead 1896a: 133-134. Type data: PAKISTAN: Baluchistan, on Nerium oleander, 24/01/1894, by R. Tomlin. Syntypes, female, Type depository: London: The Natural History Museum, England, UK; accepted valid name Illustr.
• Aonidia distinctissima (Newstead, 1896); Cockerell 1899a: 396. change of combination
• Fiorinia distinctissima (Newstead, 1896); Lindinger 1910: 151. change of combination
• Gymnaspis distinctissima (Newstead, 1896); MacGillivray 1921: 256. change of combination
• Fiorinia afchari Bodenheimer 1944b: 96. Type data: IRAN: Bender Abbas, on Periploeca aphylla, ?/07/1942, by Prof. Sherbinowsky. Syntypes, female, Type depository: Bet Dagan: Department of Entomology, The Volcani Center, Israel; junior synonym (discovered by BorchsWi1962, 67).

Common Names

Ecological Associates

Hosts:

Families: 3 | Genera: 4

Geographic Distribution

Keys

• MoghadWa2021: pp.124 ( Adult (F) ) [Fiorinia in Iran]
• Balach1954e: pp.303 ( Adult (F) ) [Key to species of Fiorinia] Key as: Fiorinia afchari
• MacGil1921: pp.256 ( Adult (F) ) [Key to species of Gymnaspis] Key as: Gymnaspis distinctissima

Remarks

• Systematics: Fiorinia distinctissima can be told by its broad body and by the scale of the adult female (Borchsenius & Williams, 1962).
• Structure: Female scale short, pyriform, dark black-brown, with 2 processes at the narrower end. Second exuviae entirely covering adult scale. First exuviae terminal, round, light brown. Adult female short, elliptic in early stages, with subparallel sides, suddenly narrowing towards end. Pygidium triangular, protruding (Bodenheimer, 1944b).
• General Remarks: Detailed description of Fiorinia afchari by Bodenheimer (1944b). Detailed description and illustration by Balachowsky (1954e).

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