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Furcaspis rufa Lindinger, 1913 (Diaspididae: Furcaspis)

Furcaspis rufa Lindinger 1913b: 97. Type data: REUNION: St. Denis, on Erythroxylon sp.. Syntypes, female, Type depository: Hamburg: Zoologisches Institut und Zoologisches Museum, Universitat von Hamburg, Germany; accepted valid name
Tollaspidiotus rufus (Lindinger, 1913); MacGillivray 1921: 426. change of combination requiring emendation of specific epithet for agreement in gender
Furcaspis rufa Lindinger, 1913; Borchsenius 1966: 242. revived combination (previously published)

Families: 1 | Genera: 1

Countries: 1

Structure: Scale of young female broadly elliptical, parallel-sided, later circular, 1.5-2 mm in diameter; red brown, thick robust; exuviae lighter in colour, eccentric; ventral scale white. Male scale narrow, linear, 1.3-1.5 mm long, 0.5 mm wide; red brown, with yellow exuviae at head apex (Lindinger, 1913b).
General Remarks: Description and illustration of adult female by Lindinger (1913b) and by Williams et al. (2006).