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Parlatoria zeylanica is now Parlatoria rutherfordi Green, 1922 (Diaspididae: Parlatoria)

Parlatoria zeylanica is also an old combination for the names below:

Parlatoria zeylanica Rutherford 1915: 114-115. Type data: SRI LANKA: Peradeniya, on Cinnamomum sp.. Syntypes, female, Type depository: Paradeniya: Horticultural Crop Research and Development Institute, Sri Lanka; junior homonym Replacement name for Parlatoria zeylanica Rutherford 1915 Notes: Rutherford (1915) used the name zeylanica for two species of Parlatoria which were described in the same paper. Green (1922) proposed the name rutherfordi for the second of these (McKenzie, 1945).
Parlatoria rutherfordi Green 1922a: 1020. replacement name Replacement name for Parlatoria zeylanica Rutherford 1915

Families: 1 | Genera: 1

Countries: 1

Systematics: Rutherford used the name zeylanica for two species of Parlatoria which were described in the same paper. Green (1922) proposed the name rutherfordi for the second of these.
Structure: Female scale light brown, composed entirely of the exuviae. 2nd exuviae three times the length of the 1st, both covered with a whitish secretion. A pitchy black area just caudal of the 1st exuviae. Adult female with 3 pairs of lobes, median lobes longer than broad, triangular towards apex, irregularly indented. 2nd lobes often longer than broad or at least as long as broad, the lateral side slightly indented. 3rd lobes not always distinguishable from the lobe-like plates (Rutherford, 1915).
General Remarks: Detailed description by Rutherford (1915).