Redescription of Pulvinaria floccifera (Insecta: Hemiptera: Coccidae)

Abstract

A pulvinariine soft scale, Pulvinaria fioccifera (Westwood, 1870), is redescribed and illustrated based on microscopic examination of the morphology of several adult female specimens of the type series. These syntypic specimens exhibit a different distribution of tubular ducts than that presented in several previous taxonomic accounts of P. fioccifera based on other material.