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Furcaspis charmoyi Brain, 1918 (Diaspididae: Furcaspis)

Aspidiotus cladii; Grandpré & Charmoy 1899: 22. misidentification (discovered by Brain1918, 138).
Furcaspis charmoyi Brain 1918: 138. Type data: MAURITIUS: on palms.. Syntypes, female, Type depository: Pretoria: South African National Collection of Insects, South Africa; accepted valid name Illustr.
Spinaspidiotus charmoyi (Brain, 1918); MacGillivray 1921: 430. change of combination
Aspidiotus cladii; Mamet 1946: 241. misidentification (discovered by Mamet1946, 241).
Furcaspis charmoyi Brain, 1918; Borchsenius 1966: 241. revived combination (previously published)

Families: 1 | Genera: 2

Countries: 2

Systematics: This species has been first recorded from Mauritius by Grandre & Charmoy (1899) who misidentified it as Aspidiotus cladii Maskell. Brain (1918) noted this misidentification, and described Furcaspis charmoyi based on original material of Grandre & Charmoy (1899) from Mauritius.
Structure: Female scale yellow-brown to dark brown, often tinged with a greenish colour (Brain, 1918). Female scale rounded to oval, fairly convex, dark reddish-brown. Exuviae near anterior end, rounded. Male scale similar to that of female but smaller (Mamet, 1946).
General Remarks: Description and illustration of adult female by Mamet (1946), Munting (1965) and by Williams et al. (2006).