Valid Names Results

Rugaspidiotinus fuscitatis (Ferris, 1938) (Diaspididae: Rugaspidiotinus)

Nomenclatural History

• Rugaspidiotus fuscitatis Ferris 1938a: SII-170. Type data: MEXICO: Baja California Sur, Cabo San Lucas, on Lycium?, 1919, by G.F. Ferris. Holotype, female, Type depository: Davis: The Bohart Museum of Entomology, University of California, California, USA; accepted valid name Illustr.
• Rugaspidiotinus fuscitatis (Ferris, 1938); Balachowsky 1953g: 28. change of combination

Common Names

Ecological Associates

Hosts:

Families: 1 | Genera: 1

Geographic Distribution

Keys

• Ferris1942: pp.SIV-446:66 ( Adult (F) ) [Key to species of Rugaspidiotus] Key as: Rugaspidiotus fuscitatis

Remarks

• Structure: Female scale narrow, slender, irregular, with a thick ventral scale and of an irregularly brown and whitish color. Male scale similar. Slide-mounted adult female 0.75 mm long, somewhat fusiform and tending to be rather strongly sclerotized throughout, especially in the caphalothoracic region. Pygidium rounded, its margin interrupted only by slight notches which mark the intersegmental points, both dorsally and ventrally with numerous short, broad ducts with a sclerotized rim about the mouth, those of the venter being fully as large as those of the dorsum (Ferris, 1938a).
• Biology: R. fuscitatis was collected under the scales of Dactylaspis acuta (Ferris, 1938a).
• General Remarks: Detailed description and illustration by Ferris (1938a).

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