Praecocaspis diversa 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 : 96

Praecocaspis diversa Ferris, 1942

Praecocaspis diversa Ferris, 1942 : SIV-411

Syntype: 8 ♀ (1 slide). [front left label, on pink] Diaspididae / Praecocaspis / diversa/ n. sp. / [hw] Syntype[/hw] PARATYPE // [hw front right label] Praecocaspis 6 spms / diversa n. sp. / Host-Trema sp./ Miami, Fla./ Coll. Geo. H. Baker/ 16-IX-1941 / 79359 G.F. Ferris // [back left barcode label] FSCA 00071474.

Syntype: 8 ♀ (1 slide). [front left label, on pink] Diaspididae / Praecocaspis / diversa/ n. sp. / [hw] Syntype [/hw] PARATYPE // [hw front right label] Praecocaspis / diversa n. sp. / Paratype 8 spms / Host. Trema sp./ Miami, Fla./ Coll. Geo. H. Baker/ 16-IX-1941 / 79359 G.F. Ferris // [back left barcode label] FSCA 00071475.

Syntype: 8 ♀ (1 slide). [front left label, on pink] Diaspididae / Praecocaspis / diversa/ n. sp. / [hw] Syntype [/hw] PARATYPE // [hw front right label] Paratype/ Praecocaspis 8 spms diversa n. sp. / on Trema sp/ Miami, Florida / Coll. G.H. Baker/ 8-VIII-1941 / 79359 G.F. Ferris // [back left barcode label] FSCA 00071476.

Conservation status: Good condition; slide-mounted (Balsam); FSCA 00071474 ( Figs. 169a, b ), FSCA 00071475 (Figs. 170a, b), FSCA 00071476 (Figs. 171a, b).

Additional notes: Like the slides of Lindingaspis floridana , the typed “ paratype ” has been crossed out in pencil and replaced with “ syntype ” making the identity of these slides as syntypes unclear. ECP also examined photographs of the five 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. We have an additional 9 paratype slides in the FSCA with the same label data as the syntypes reported here.

Figures

FIGURES 169b–172a. Front and back of syntype slides of 169b). Praecocaspis diversa Ferris, 1942; Ventral view of 170a). Praecocaspis diversa Ferris, 1942; Front and back of syntype slides of 170b). Praecocaspis diversa Ferris, 1942; Ventral view of 171a). Praecocaspis diversa Ferris, 1942; Front and back of syntype slides of 171b). Praecocaspis diversa Ferris, 1942; Ventral view of 172a). Matsucoccus krystalae Ahmed & Miller, 2020. Scale bars 170a & 171a = 0.1 mm, scale bar 172a = 1 mm, scale bars 169b, 170b & 171b = 1 cm.