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Diaspis ferrisi McKenzie, 1947 (Diaspididae: Diaspis)

Diaspis texensis; Ferris 1942: 6. misidentification (discovered by McKenz1947b, 109).
Diaspis ferrisi McKenzie 1947b: 109-110. Type data: MEXICO: Oaxaca, Salina Cruz, on unidentified shrub, 1926, by G.F. Ferris. Holotype, female, Type depository: Davis: The Bohart Museum of Entomology, University of California, California, USA; accepted valid name Illustr.

Countries: 1

Systematics: Diaspis ferrisi resembles D. parasiti and D. texensis, but is separable from them in the narrow, pointed and much reduced median pygidial lobes, the presence of a series of minute submarginal ducts on the prosoma including the meta an mesothorax, and a very large group of dorsal submarginal macroducts on the first abdominal segment (McKenzie, 1947b).
Structure: Female scale almost circular, about 1.5 mm in diameter, light brown with exuviae subcentral. Male scale elongate, snowy white and smaller than the female, exuviae near one end (McKenzie, 1947b).
General Remarks: Best description and illustration by McKenzie (1947b).