Valid Names Results

Furcaspis capensis (Walker, 1852) (Diaspididae: Furcaspis)

Lecanium capense Walker 1852: 1079. Type data: SOUTH AFRICA: Cape Province, Algoa Bay, host plant not indicated.. Syntypes, female, Type depository: London: The Natural History Museum, England, UK; accepted valid name
Aspidiotus (Aonidiella) capensis (Walker, 1852); Green 1904b: 375. change of combination requiring emendation of specific epithet for agreement in gender
Furcaspis capensis (Walker, 1852); Lindinger 1908b: 99. change of combination
Aspidiotus reticulatus Newstead 1912: 17. Type data: NAMIBIA: Klein-Namaland, Steinkopf, on undetermined plant.. Syntypes, female, Type depository: London: The Natural History Museum, England, UK; junior synonym (discovered by Borchs1966, 242).
Spinaspidiotus reticulatus (Newstead, 1912); MacGillivray 1921: 430. change of combination
Truncaspidiotus capensis (Walker, 1852); MacGillivray 1921: 431. change of combination
Separaspis capensis (Walker, 1852); Balachowsky 1958b: 252. change of combination
Furcaspis capensis (Walker, 1852); Williams, Miller & Rung 2006: 16. revived combination (previously published)

Families: 2 | Genera: 2

Families: 2 | Genera: 4

Countries: 4

Structure: Female scale sub-circular or oval; average size of the adult female scale is 2.5 mm. in largest diameter, but occasional specimens reach 3.5 mm; moderately convex, very dense and tough, with the highest point towards one side, from which, as a centre, concentric ridges or corrugations extend to the margin; colour of scale varies with age; when young it is a rich pale brown, but becomes more reddish later. Male scale is small, linear, tapering slightly to the posterior extremity, brown, with the exuviae at the front end and the hind end paler; length about 1.2 mm (Brain, 1918).
General Remarks: Description and illustration of adult female by Brain (1918), Balachowsky (1958b) and by Williams et al. (2006).