Genus Ferrisia Fullaway, 1923

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Genus Ferrisia Fullaway, 1923

Ferrisia Fullaway, D.T. 1923. Notes on the mealy-bugs of economic importance in Hawaii. Proceedings of the Hawaiian Entomological Society 5: 305-321 [311].
Type species:
Dactylopius virgatus Cockerell, 1893 by monotypy.
Ferrisiana Takahashi, R. 1929. Aphididae and Coccidae of the Pescadores. Transactions of the Natural History Society of Formosa 19: 425-431 [429] [unjustified replacement name for Ferrisia Fullaway, 1923, see Morrison, H. & Morrison, E.R. 1966. An annotated list of generic names of the scale insects (Homoptera: Coccoidea). Miscellaneous Publication United States Department of Agriculture 1015: 1–206 (78)].
Secondary source:
Morrison, H. & Morrison, E.R. 1966. An annotated list of generic names of the scale insects (Homoptera: Coccoidea). Miscellaneous Publication United States Department of Agriculture 1015: 1-206.

Miscellaneous Literature Names

Ferrisa Fullaway, 1923 [misspelling]. —
Freidberg, A., Susman, I. & Kaplan, F. 1989. Cotton Insects of Israel. The Cotton Production & Marketing Board, Israel. 128 pp.

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ID Keys

(Tang, F.T., 1992) [208-209] (female; species Palaearctic & Oriental Regions); (Tang, F.T., 1992) [187] (female; Palaearctic & Oriental Regions); (Williams, D.J. & Granara de Willink, M.C., 1992) [177] (female; Central and South America); (Williams, D.J. & Granara de Willink, M.C., 1992) [40] (female; Central and South America); (Williams, D.J. & Watson, G.W., 1988) [18] (female; tropical South Pacific region); (Avasthi, R.K. & Shafee, S.A., 1987) [3] (female; India); (Williams, D.J., 1985) [36] (female; Australia); (Wang, T.C., 1982) [21] (female; China); (McKenzie, H.L., 1967) [45] (female; North America); (McKenzie, H.L., 1967) [179] (female; North America); (Beardsley, J.W., 1966) [404] (female; Federated States of Micronesia); (Ferris, G.F., 1953) [360] (female; North America); (Ferris, G.F., 1953) [283] (female; North America); (Ferris, G.F., 1950) [21] (female; North America); (Ferris, G.F., 1950) [88] (female; North America); (Borchsenius, N.S., 1949) [87] (female; Palaearctic Region)

GENERAL

Good definition and characters given by Ferris in Zimmerman, E.C. 1948. Homoptera: Sternorrhyncha. pp. 268 in Zimmerman, E.C. (ed). Insects of Hawaii. Honolulu : University of Hawaii Press Vol. 5 464 pp., Borchsenius, N.S. 1949. Insects Homoptera. suborders mealybugs and scales (Coccoidea). Family mealybugs (Pseudococcidae). Vol. VII. Fauna SSSR. Zoologicheskii Institut Akademii Nauk SSSR 38: 1–382, Ferris, G.F. 1950. Atlas of the Scale Insects of North America. (Ser. 5, vol. 5). The Pseudococcidae (Part I). Palo Alto, California : Stanford University Press 278 pp.; Ferris, G.F. 1953. Atlas of the Scale Insects of North America, v. 6, The Pseudococcidae (Part II). Palo Alto, California : Stanford University Press 506 pp., De Lotto, G. 1964. Observations on African mealy bugs (Hemiptera: Coccoidea). Bulletin of the British Museum (Natural History), Entomology 14: 343–397, Beardsley, J.W. 1966. Insects of Micronesia. Homoptera: Coccoidea. Insects of Micronesia 6: 377–562, McKenzie, H.L. 1967. Mealybugs of California with taxonomy, biology, and control of North American species (Homoptera: Cooccoidea: Pseudococcidae). Berkeley : Univ. Calif. Press 526 pp., Williams (1960a, 1985), Kawai, S. 1980. Scale insects of Japan in colors. Tokyo : National Agricultural Education Association 455 pp., Williams, D.J. & Watson, G.W. 1988. The Scale Insects of the Tropical South Pacific Region. Part 1. The armoured scales (Diaspididae). London : CAB International Institute of Entomology 290 pp., Williams, D.J. & Granara de Willink, M.C. 1992. Mealybugs of Central and South America. London, England : CAB International Institute of Entomology 635 pp. and by Kosztarab, M. 1996. Scale insects of Northeastern North America. Identification, biology, and distribution. Martinsburg, Virginia : Virginia Museum of Natural History 650 pp..