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Parlatoria cupressi Ferris, 1953 (Diaspididae: Parlatoria)

Parlatoria cupressi Ferris 1953: 61-62. Type data: CHINA: Yunnan, Kunming, on campus of University at Kunming, on Cupressus ducluoxiana, 26/04/1949, by G.F. Ferris. Holotype, female, Type depository: Davis: The Bohart Museum of Entomology, University of California, California, USA; accepted valid name Illustr.
Parlatoria thujae Takagi & Kawai 1966: 94-95. Type data: JAPAN: Tokyo, on Thuja standishi, by S. Kawai; Amagi-san, Sizuoka-ken, Wakayama Experiment Forest of Hokkaido University, Wakayama-ken, Siraga-yama, Koti-ken, on Chamaecyparis obtusa, by S. Takagi. Syntypes, female, Type depository: Sapporo: Entomological Institute, Faculty of Agriculture, Hokkaido University, Japan; junior synonym (discovered by Tang1984, 87). Illustr.
Parlatoreopsis thujae (Takagi & Kawai, 1966); Kawai 1972: 22. change of combination

Families: 2 | Genera: 5

Countries: 2

Systematics: Parlatoria cupressi is evidently near P. alba, sharing with it the presence of 2 pairs of pygidial lobes and having the same general features. It may even be a variant of P. alba, but it has no pores associated with the anterior spiracles, it has 4 instead of 5 groups of perivulvar pores, these with 4 pores, as opposed to 5 groups of as many as 15-16 pores. Also, it has fewer dorsal ducts on the pygidium (Ferris, 1953).
Structure: Female scale elongate oval, composed mostly of 2nd exuviae which is overlain by a layer of wax that extends beyond the extremity of the exuviae, white or slightly gray. Male scale elongate, white. Neither scale exceeds 1.0 mm in length. A practically pupillarial species, the adult female is enveloped dorsally by the exuviae of the 2nd stage, which is open ventrally. Adult female about 0.5 mm long and exuviae about 0.6 mm long. Membranous throughout, except for the slightly sclerotized dorsum of the pygidium (Ferris, 1953).
General Remarks: Detailed description and illustration by Ferris (1953).