Valid Names Results

Trullifiorinia acaciae (Maskell, 1892) (Diaspididae: Trullifiorinia)

Nomenclatural History

• Fiorinia acaciae Maskell 1892: 16. Type data: AUSTRALIA: on Acacia pycnantha, 1890, by Mr. Crawford. Syntypes, female, Type depository: Auckland: New Zealand Arthropod Collection, Landcare Research, New Zealand; London: The Natural History Museum, England, UK; Washington: United States National Entomological Collection, U.S. National Museum of Natural History, District of Columbia, USA; accepted valid name Illustr.
• Fiorinia acaciae bilobis Fuller 1897b: 5. junior synonym (discovered by Lindin1935, 132). Notes: Types presumed lost.
• Fiorinia (Trullifiorinia) Acaciae Maskell, 1892; Leonardi 1906c: 43. change of combination
• Crypthemichionaspis acaciae (Maskell, 1892); Lindinger 1911: 175. change of combination
• Trullifiorinia acaciae (Maskell, 1892); MacGillivray 1921: 376. change of combination
• Anamefiorinia acaciae (Maskell, 1892); Lindinger 1935: 132. change of combination
• Trullifiorinia acaciae (Maskell, 1892); Andersen, et al. 2010: 997. revived combination (previously published)

Common Names

Ecological Associates

Hosts:

Families: 1 | Genera: 2

Geographic Distribution

Keys

• MacGil1921: pp.376 ( Adult (F) ) [Key to species of Trullifiorinia]
• Leonar1906c: pp.41 ( Adult (F) ) [Key to species of Trullifiorinia] Key as: Fiorinia (Trullifiorinia) acaciae

Remarks

• Systematics: LECTOTYPE female: AUSTRALIA, on an original slide labelled "Fiorinia acaciae, adult female, Australia, 1890, W.M.M.", [1]: 1 F, uncleared and unstained mature female, with some embryos squashed out from body. Barcode NZAC02008250 (NZAC). (Henderson, 2011) Specimens of Maskell’s material held in NZAC are all of the recessed, thorn-like lobes variant. Collections of the New Zealand naturalised population are all basically the second variant with prominent median lobes, although these may be less contiguous and sometimes apically notched as if nearly subdivided. Molecular data does not support the existence of more than one species as the New Zealand T. acaciae is nested deep inside a cluster of Australian T. acaciae samples (Andersen et al. 2010).
• Structure: Female puparium dark brown, almost black, elongate, convex, first exuviae yellowish brown. Adult female dark brown, elongate abdominal extremity truncate with a single median lobe with two deep incisions, 4 or 5 spiny hairs, 5 groups of spinnerets. Male puparium snowy white, deeply ribbed down the center, narrow with parallel sides and the apex almost truncate (Froggatt, 1914). Membranous female enclosed in small, pitch black, elongate pupillarium that has a membranous pygidium at posterior end with 4 pairs of sclerotised gland spines on abdominal margin; 1st-exuvium either black or translucent. Female 2nd-instar scale cover fawn-coloured, not carinated, with terminal exuvium. Male scale cover white, tricarinate, composed of somewhat loose wax, with grey-brown to dark brown or black terminal exuvium; the white part is short when over a 2nd-instar male, then becomes elongate during the following developmental stages. 1st-instar crawler light orange or apricot colour. (Henderson, 2011)
• Biology: On petioles, stems or leaves, usually aligned lengthwise along grooves on the plant stem or petiole. (Henderson, 2011)
• General Remarks: Detailed description and illustrations in Henderson, 2011.

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