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Pseudoparlatoria fusca Ferris, 1941 (Diaspididae: Pseudoparlatoria)

Nomenclatural History

• Pseudoparlatoria fusca Ferris 1941d: SIII-317. Type data: MEXICO: Vera Cruz, Puerto Mexico, on undetermined tree, 1926, by G.F. Ferris. Holotype, female, Type depository: Davis: The Bohart Museum of Entomology, University of California, California, USA; accepted valid name Illustr.

Common Names

Ecological Associates

Hosts:

Families: 1 | Genera: 1

Geographic Distribution

Keys

• CaballKoRa2023: pp.27 ( Adult (F) ) [Species of Pseudoparlatoria Cockerell, 1892 recorded in Colombia]
• 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 very distinctive scale and definite clusters of pygidial ducts distinguish this species from all others (Ferris, 1941d).
• Structure: Female scale brown, quite convex, oval, exuviae submarginal on one of the long sides. Male scale oval, exuviae terminal. Slide-mounted adult female about 0.6 mm long, turbinate. Pygidium with small median lobes, widely separated, usual paired gland spines between. 2nd lobes clearly developed, bilobulate. 3rd lobes slightly indicated. Perivulvar pores in 5 groups, median group with 2 or 3 pores and perhaps at time lacking (Ferris, 1941d).
• General Remarks: Detailed description and illustration by Ferris (1941d).

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