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Fiorinia expansa Maskell, 1895 (Diaspididae: Fiorinia)

Fiorinia expansa Maskell 1895b: 51. Type data: AUSTRALIA: Bankstown, near Sydney. Syntypes, female, Type depository: Auckland: New Zealand Arthropod Collection, Landcare Research, New Zealand; London: The Natural History Museum, England, UK; Washington: United States National Entomological Collection, U.S. National Museum of Natural History, District of Columbia, USA; accepted valid name Illustr.

Families: 1 | Genera: 1

Countries: 1

WatsonWiMi2015: pp.298-299 ( Adult (F) ) [Fiorinia in the Australasian, Nearctic and Neotropical Regions]

Systematics: Borchsenius (1966) lists this species as incertae sedis.
Structure: Female puparium snow white, first exuviae standing out dark yellow, second hidden under white secretion that appears to be deposited in regular ridges. A few fine hairs stand out from the first exuviae; the whole scale broad and convex. Male puparium white, with a single exuviae, cylindrical and not carinated. Adult female yellow, elongate, segmented, cephalic extremity truncated, minute median depression, no lobes, on either side two or three very short spines; no spinnerets (Froggatt, 1914).
General Remarks: Best description and illustration by Maskell (1895b).