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Ischnafiorinia bambusae (Maskell, 1897) (Diaspididae: Ischnafiorinia)

Fiorina bambusae Maskell 1897a: 242. Type data: CHINA: Hong Kong, on Bambusa fortunei. Syntypes, female, Type depository: Auckland: New Zealand Arthropod Collection, Landcare Research, New Zealand; Davis: The Bohart Museum of Entomology, University of California, California, USA; Sacramento: California State Collection of Arthropods, California Dept. Food & Agriculture, California, USA; Washington: United States National Entomological Collection, U.S. National Museum of Natural History, District of Columbia, USA; accepted valid name
Ischnafiorinia bambusae (Maskell, 1897); MacGillivray 1921: 378. change of combination

Families: 1 | Genera: 2

Countries: 4

Systematics: Ischnafiorinia bambusae is a pupillarial species. It has a somewhat simplified adult female, without pygidial appendages apart from minute L1, and without dorsal ducts. Borchsenius placed this species in his tribe Parlatoriini, subtribe Gymnaspidina, but there are some morphological characters that indicate it belongs in Diaspidinae, such as 3-locular pores near the anterior spiracles and the second-instar female having 2-barred marginal macroducts whose orifices are oriented longitudinally. (Normark, et al., 2019)
Structure: Second exuviae exceedingly elongated and narrow, thin and translucent, with irregularly serrated margin and small lobes. Adult female very elongated with two terminal lobes (Maskell, 1897a). Male scale white, exuviae yellow (Maskell, 1898).
General Remarks: Detailed description and illustration by Maskell (1898). Subsequent illustration by Ferris (1936a).