Valid Names Results
Fiorinia frontecontracta Green, 1919 (Diaspididae: Fiorinia)Nomenclatural History
- Fiorinia frontecontracta Kasargode 1914: 135. nomen nudum (discovered by Green1919c, 447).
- Fiorinia frontecontracta Green 1919c: 447. Type data: INDIA: Maharashtra, Bombay, on Garcinia indica, by H.H. Mann. Syntypes, female, Type depository: London: The Natural History Museum, England, UK; accepted valid name Illustr.
- Fiorinia fronticontracta Green, 1919; Williams, D.J. 2017a: 223. misspelling of species epithet
Common Names
Ecological Associates
Hosts:
Families: 1 | Genera: 1
- Clusiaceae
- Garcinia indica | Kasarg1914
Geographic Distribution
Countries: 1
- India | Kasarg1914
- Maharashtra | Green1919c
Keys
Remarks
- Structure: Puparium of female pale castaneous, usually with a darker medio-longitudinal stripe running through both larval and nymphal exuviae. Little or no secretionary appendix, elongate, narrow, 2.0-2.25 mm long. Nymphal exuviae elongate, narrow, anterior extremity with a sharply defined depressed area where it is overlapped by the larval exuviae. Male puparium white, larval exuviae pale stramineous. The white secretionary appendix wider towards the posterior extremity, flattish, with a single, often obscure, medio-longitudinal carina. Adult female with anterior extremity contracted and transversely wrinkled (Green, 1919c).
- General Remarks: Best description and illustration by Green (1919c).
Illustrations
Citations
- Ali1969a: distribution, host, 45
- Borchs1966: catalog, distribution, host, taxonomy, 144
- Green1919c: description, distribution, host, illustration, taxonomy, 447
- Kasarg1914: distribution, host, 135
- Ramakr1921a: catalog, distribution, host, 355
- Varshn1967a: taxonomy, 78
- Varshn2002: distribution, host, 64
- Willia2017a: catalog, list of species, 223