Valid Names Results

Fiorinia vacciniae Kuwana, 1925 (Diaspididae: Fiorinia)

Nomenclatural History

• Fiorinia vacciniae Kuwana 1925b: 15-16. Type data: JAPAN: Honshu, Higashino, Hyogoken, on Vaccinium bracteatum, ?/05/1924, by I. Kuwana. Syntypes, female, Type depository: Ibaraki-ken: Insect Taxonomy Laboratory, National Institute of Agricultural Environmental Sciences, Kannon-dai, Yatabe, Tsukuba-shi, (Kuwana), Japan; accepted valid name Notes: One possible original slide in USNM that matches type data, but with a different collection date. Illustr.
• Fiorinia vaccinii Kuwana, 1925; Lindinger 1932f: 197. misspelling of species epithet
• Fiorinia cephalotaxi Takahashi 1952a: 12. junior synonym (discovered by Tang1977, probably).
• Fiorinia euryae; Takahashi 1956a: 60. misidentification (discovered by Borchs1966, ).

Common Names

Ecological Associates

Hosts:

Families: 8 | Genera: 11

Foes:

Families: 1 | Genera: 1

Geographic Distribution

Keys

• LiuCaFe2020: pp.397-399 ( Adult (F) ) [Fiorinia in China]
• WeiZhFe2013: pp.94 ( Adult (F) ) [Key to the adult females of Fiorinia species known from China]
• Matile1990: pp.206 ( Adult (F) ) [Key to females]
• Takagi1961: pp.41 ( Adult (F) ) [Key to species of Fiorinia of Japan]
• Kuwana1925b: pp.2 ( Adult (F) ) [Key to Japanese species of Fiorinia]

Remarks

• Systematics: GenBank accession numbers DQ145329, DQ145441, DQ873234 and DQ868822 were previously determined to be Fiorinia euryae, but Normark, et al., 2019, referred these numbers to Fiorinia vacciniae. Fiorinia vacciniae is close to F. euryae, but the latter has a well developed second lobe, while the former does not (Kuwana, 1925b). F. vacciniae is also so close to F. pinicola that they may prove to be the same species, but for the present can be distinguished especially in the second stage: in F. pinicola the female has a marginal gland spine on either side just caudal of the marginal macroduct which comes in second from the anterior and may belong to the 4th abdominal segment, whereas in F. vacciniae this gland spine is absent. In the adult female of F. pinicola the antennal tubercles are set close together, without a membranous process between them, each tubercle being produced into a very elongate process, whereas in that of F. vacciniae the antennal tubercles are set somewhat apart, often with a membranous process between them, and each of them is usually not elongate in shape, although at times is produced into a somewhat elongate, conical projection (Takagi, 1961).
• Structure: Female scale elongate, sides nearly parallel, anterior margin round, tapering slightly towards posterior end, median longitudinal ridge rather distinct, flat and thin, yellowish brown. Thinly covered with a transparent secretion which extends slightly beyond the margin of exuviae. Male scale white, tricarinate, exuviae pale yellow, about 1 mm long. Adult female elongate, sides parallel, anterior margin broad and round, yellow (Kuwana, 1925b).
• General Remarks: Descriptions and illustrations by Kuwana (1925b) and Takagi (1961).

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