Valid Names Results

Pulvinarisca Borchsenius, 1953 (Coccidae)

Pulvinarisca Borchsenius 1953: 288. Type species: Pulvinaria serpentina Balachowsky by monotypy and original designation . accepted valid name
Macropulvinaria Hodgson 1968: 155. Type species: Pulvinaria jacksoni Newstead by original designation Hodgso1994a:327-330,509-512 . junior synonym

Systematics: Subfamily: Coccinae. Tribe: Pulvinariini.
Structure: Adult female with: (i) body more-or-less elongate oval, widest at abdomen, with slight but distinct indentations in stigmatic areas; (ii) derm entirely membranous, lacking areolations; (iii) dorsal pores of several types, frequent, scattered throughout; (iv) dorsal tubercles and dorsal tubular ducts present or absent; (v) dorsal setae short, thick and bluntly pointed (except pointed in P. serpentina); (vi) marginal setae spinose, each with simple pointed apex and well-developed basal-socket; (vii) stigmatic spines usually numbering more than 3 per spiracular cleft, clearly differentiated from marginal setae; (viii) multilocular disc-pores present around genital opening and on preceding abdominal segments; (ix) ventral tubular ducts of 2 or 3 types, with distributions variable; (x) anal plates together quadrate, dorsal surface with or without ridges; (xi) each anal plate with spinose, nonspatulate setae along inner margin, and (xii) each claw with a denticle on widest part (Joshi, et al., 2025 from Hodgson 1968, as Macropulvinaria; and Hodgson 1994)
General Remarks: Definition and characters by Tao et al. (1983), Williams & Watson (1990) and by Hodgson (1968, 1994a).