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Duplaspidiotus fossor (Newstead, 1914) (Diaspididae: Duplaspidiotus)

Aspidiotus (Pseudaonidia) fossor Newstead 1914: 308. Type data: BARBADOS: Queen's Park, on grape vine.. Syntypes, female, Type depository: London: The Natural History Museum, England, UK; accepted valid name Illustr.
Lattaspidiotus fossor (Newstead, 1914); MacGillivray 1921: 457. change of combination
Aspidiotus fossor Newstead, 1914; Ferris 1941e: 43. change of combination
Duplaspidiotus fossor (Newstead, 1914); Ferris 1941d: 340. change of combination
Duplaspidiotus fossor (Newstead, 1914); Borchsenius 1966: 234. revived combination (previously published)

Families: 2 | Genera: 2

Countries: 6

Structure: Female scale subcircular, greatest diameter 2.5 mm; highly convex; black or piceous; very thick and strong, but invariably covered with a superficial layer of bark, so that it is highly protected and inconspicuous; exuviae (not buried beneath the bark) placed centrally, colour red, or dull orange red; second exuviae dull castaneous; under surface black, smooth, but with a thin pearly grey secretion; ventral exuvia thick, greyish, with a well defined black margin and a subcentral circular white patch, between which and the margin the sublying blackish secretion shows through in fine dark and somewhat concentric lines (Newstead, 1914). Female scale is pitch black, circular, highly convex and with the exuviae subcentral and red in rubbed specimens. Male scale not recognized (Ferris, 1941d).
General Remarks: Description and illustration of adult female by Newstead (1914), Ferris (1941d), Foldi & Soria (1989) and by Colon-Ferrer & Medina-Gaud (1998).