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

Fiorinia tianshuiensis Wei & Feng 2013: 94-97. Type data: CHINA: Gansu province, Tianshui City, 6/4/1964, 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 tianshuiensis is similar to F. japonica Kuwana, 1902, and F. hymenanthis Takagi, 1975, in body shape and in the number of pygidial lobes, but can be distinguished by (character states for F. japonica in brackets): 1) gland spines absent on pygidium (present), and 2) antennal tubercle not elongated in new species (produced into a long process). The species is also similar to F. hymenanthis Takagi, 1975, but can be distinguished by (character states for F. hymenanthis in brackets): 1) gland spines absent on pygidum (present); and 2) with 4 obvious notches on each inner margin (without obvious notches on either inner margin). Wei, et al., 2013)
Structure: Body outline oval to fusiform; derm membranous except for pygidium. Antennae, small and simple, with 1 long seta on tubercle-like base, set close together on anterior margin of head; interantennal process absent. Anterior spiracles each with 3 or 4 trilocular pores; pores absent from posterior spiracles.
General Remarks: Detailed description and illustration in Wei, et al., 2013.