Lindingaspis floridana Ferris, 1942

Powell, Erin C., Halbert, Susan E., Deeter, Lily & Keller, Oliver, 2023, An annotated and illustrated catalog of the primary type material of Hemiptera deposited in the Florida State Collection of Arthropods, Zootaxa 5355 (1), pp. 1-107 : 91

Lindingaspis floridana Ferris, 1942

Lindingaspis floridana Ferris, 1942: 428

Syntype: 2 ♀ (1 slide). [front left label, on pink] Diaspididae / Lindingaspis / floridana/ Ferris/ [hw] 2 / Syntype [/hw]/ PARATYPE // [front right label] W. Palm Beach, / Fla./ 9 V 1923 / R. Hart &/ Oakley / on/ Mangifera/ indica/ SPB 16024 // [back left barcode label] FSCA 00071464 .

Syntype: 6 ♀ (6 slides). [front left label, on pink] Diaspididae / Lindingaspis / floridana/ Ferris/ [hw in pencil] 1 / Syntype [/hw]/ PARATYPE // [front right label, white] W. Palm Beach , / Fla./ 6 IX 1922 / R. Hart / on/ Mangifera/ indica/ SPB 14044 // [back left barcode label] FSCA 00071465–FSCA 00071470 .

Conservation status: Good condition; slide-mounted (Balsam); FSCA 00071464 ( Figs. 159a–c ), FSCA 00071465 (Figs. 160a, b), FSCA 00071466 ( Figs. 161a, b ), FSCA 00071467 (Figs. 162a, b), FSCA 00071468 (Figs. 163a, b), FSCA 00071469 ( Figs. 164a, b ), FSCA 00071470 (Figs. 165a, b).

Additional notes: Six slides with one specimen each with identical label data and one slide with two specimens. Given that the typed “ paratype ” has been crossed out in pencil and replaced with “ syntype ”, the identity of these slides as syntypes is somewhat dubious. ECP has also examined photographs of the four slides with the same label data in the Bohart collection at UC Davis (where most of Ferris’s collection and type material was deposited) but they are not labeled as type material and the handwriting differs from the slides deposited at FSCA. Further, we have an additional four specimens on two slides with the same label data in the main collection not labeled as type material.

Figures

FIGURES 159a–161a. Ventral view of 159a). Lindingaspis floridana Ferris, 1942; Ventral view of 159b). Lindingaspis floridana Ferris, 1942; Front and back of holotype slides of 159c). Lindingaspis floridana Ferris, 1942; Ventral view of 160a). Lindingaspis floridana Ferris, 1942; Front and back of holotype slides of 160b). Lindingaspis floridana Ferris, 1942; Ventral view of 161a). Lindingaspis floridana Ferris, 1942. Scale bars 159a, 159b, 160a, 161a & 159b = 0.5 mm, scale bars 159c & 160b = 1 cm.

FIGURES 161b–164a. Front and back of syntype slides of 161b). Lindingaspis floridana Ferris, 1942; Ventral view of 162a). Lindingaspis floridana Ferris, 1942; Front and back of syntype slides of 162b). Lindingaspis floridana Ferris, 1942; Ventral view of 163a). Lindingaspis floridana Ferris, 1942; Front and back of syntype slides of 163b). Lindingaspis floridana Ferris, 1942; Ventral view of 164a). Lindingaspis floridana Ferris, 1942. Scale bars 162a, 163a & 164a = 0.5 mm, scale bars 161b, 162b & 163b = 1 cm.

FIGURES 164b–167a. Front and back of syntype slides of 164b). Lindingaspis floridana Ferris, 1942; Ventral view of 165a). Lindingaspis floridana Ferris, 1942; Front and back of syntype slides of 165b). Lindingaspis floridana Ferris, 1942; Ventral view of 166a). Palinaspis quohogiformis (Merrill, 1923); Front and back of syntype slides of 166b). Palinaspis quohogiformis (Merrill, 1923); Ventral view of 167a). Palinaspis quohogiformis (Merrill, 1923). Scale bar 165a = 0.5 mm, scale bar 166a & 167a = 0.1 mm, scale bars 164b, 165b & 166b = 1 cm.