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Pseudoferrisia floridana (Ferris, 1953) (Pseudococcidae: Pseudoferrisia)

Ferrisiana floridana Ferris 1953a: 360. Type data: U.S.A.: Florida, Charlotte County, near Cross City, on grass. Holotype, female, Type depository: Davis: The Bohart Museum of Entomology, University of California, California, USA; accepted valid name Illustr.
Ferrisia floridana (Ferris, 1953); McKenzie 1967: 179. change of combination
Pseudoferrisia floridana (Ferris, 1953); Kaydan & Gullan 2012: 60-62. change of combination

Families: 3 | Genera: 1

Countries: 1

McKenz1967: pp.179 ( Adult (F) ) [U.S.A., California] Key as: Ferrisia floridana
Ferris1953a: pp.360 ( Adult (F) ) [North America] Key as: Ferrisia floridana

Structure: The adult females of Pseudoferrisia floridana can be distinguised readily from those of Ferrisia (features of the latter genus in parentheses) by having (i) numerous long conical to lanceolate cerarian setae on each anal lobe, with cerarii or partial cerarii present anterior to anal lobes (cerarii confined to anal lobes and cerarian setae rarely numbering more than 2 or 3 per cerarius); (ii) dorsal enlarged tubular ducts bearing slender spine-like setae on or near the sclerotised area around duct (tapered setae with a slightly capitate apex), (iii) short, slender spine-like dorsal setae with blunt apex (flagellate setae with a bluntly-tipped to slightly capitate apex), (iv) oral-rim tubular ducts present on venter and each sometimes associated with a minute discoidal pore (oral-rim tubular ducts absent on venter), (v) no circulus (circulus present), and (vi) antennae 6 segmented (8, rarely 7, segmented). (Kaydan & Gullan, 2012)
Biology: This species is known only from grasses, rushes, sedges and shrubs in Florida and Georgia, USA.
General Remarks: Detailed description and illustration in Kaydan & Gullan, 2012.