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Pseudoparlatoria maculata Ferris, 1942 (Diaspididae: Pseudoparlatoria)

Nomenclatural History

• Pseudoparlatoria maculata Ferris 1942: SIV-415. Type data: MEXICO: Guerrero, near Acapulco, La Providencia, on undetermined tree, 1926, by G.F. Ferris. Syntypes, female, Type depository: Washington: United States National Entomological Collection, U.S. National Museum of Natural History, District of Columbia, USA; accepted valid name Illustr.

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Geographic Distribution

Keys

• Wolff2008: pp.292-293 ( Adult (F) ) [Chave para identificação das espécies de Pseudoparlatoria, baseada nos caracteres de fêmeas adultas. (A key to species of Pseudoparlatoria, based on the characters of adult females)]
• Ferris1942: pp.SIV-446:62 ( Adult (F) ) [Key to species of Pseudoparlatoria]

Remarks

• Systematics: The maculation of the exuviae is a very unique character of this species. Otherwise, it is close to Pseudoparlatoria parlatorioides (Ferris, 1942).
• Structure: Female scale very small, flat, circular, thin, slightly yellow, with a dark maculation on both the 2nd and 1st exuviae showing conspicuously, exuviae relatively very large, submarginal. Male scale similar, slightly elongate, exuviae with dark maculation. Slide-mounted adult female 0.5 mm long. Derm membranous throughout except for pygidium. Form broadly turbinate. Pygidium with dorsal sclerotization confined to a submarginal band which extends across the posterior border involving the area posterior to the 4th abdominal segment. Median lobes with usual bifurcate gland spine between their bases. 2nd and 3rd lobes well developed and distinctly bilobulate (Ferris, 1942).
• General Remarks: Detailed description and illustration by Ferris (1942).

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