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Fiorinia fletcheri Laing, 1929 (Diaspididae: Fiorinia)

Fiorinia fletcheri Laing 1929a: 484. Type data: INDIA: Bihar, Pusa, on Aegle marmetus, by T. Bainbrigge Fletcher. Syntypes, female, Type depository: London: The Natural History Museum, England, UK; accepted valid name Illustr.

Families: 1 | Genera: 1

Countries: 1

Systematics: The interantennal process of this species seems to be intermediate between that found in F. proboscidaria and F. theae while the characters of the pygidial margin approach those found in F. odinae (Laing, 1929a).
Structure: Male scale snow-white, narrowly elongate, with sides more or less parallel and a single median longitudinal carina; larval exuviae pale buff. Nymphal exuviae elongate, broad at head-end, tapering gradually posteriorly, pale buff to pale brown, with a distinct median longitudinal keel of a dark brown to blackish color; larval exuviae light brown; pygidium with median pair of lobes well developed, divergent and serrated on inner margin, the second pair bilobed, the second lobule small and somewhat conical. Adult female enclosed entirely within second exuviae, narrow in front and behind, parallel sided medianly (Laing, 1929a).
Biology: Specimens were crowded together on under surface of leaf and covered to a slight extent by a woolly secretion (Laing, 1929a).
General Remarks: Detailed description and illustration by Laing (1929a).