Valid Names Results

Furcaspis mauritiana (Newstead, 1917) (Diaspididae: Furcaspis)

Aspidiotus (Chrysomphalus?) mauritianus Newstead 1917: 374. Type data: MAURITIUS: Botanic Gardens, on palm trees; collected by de Charmoy, 1915.. Lectotype, female, by subsequent designation (WilliaMiRu2006,40). Type depository: London: The Natural History Museum, England, UK; accepted valid name
Tollaspidiotus mauritianus (Newstead, 1917); MacGillivray 1921: 426. change of combination
Furcaspis mauritiana (Newstead, 1917); Lindinger 1932e: 200. change of combination requiring emendation of specific epithet for agreement in gender
Tollaspidiotus mauritianus (Newstead, 1917); Borchsenius 1966: 243. revived combination (previously published)
Furcaspis mauritiana (Newstead, 1917); Williams & Miller 2006: 40. revived combination (previously published)

Families: 1 | Genera: 3

Countries: 1

Structure: Illustration of female scale cover by Newstead (1917). Female scale subcircular, 0.8-1 mm long; anterior extremity very slightly produced; posterior extremity strongly uptilted by the ventral pellicle, which is markedly thickened and tongue-shaped, but does not project beyond the dorsal pellicle; the thickened portion rests upon a thinner pellicle of secretionary matter, so that when examined in profile the scale resembles the partly open bivalve shell of a mollusk; larval exuviae subcentral, very prominent, and somewhat hemispherical; colour bright yellowish-buff or reddish-buff, with generally distinct concentric bands of a darker colour (Newstead, 1917).
General Remarks: Description and illustration of adult female by Newstead (1917) and by Williams et al. (2006).