He included one species: F. virgata, which was initially described in Dactylopius and had been transferred to Pseudococcus.

[1] In 1929, Ryoichi Takahashi proposed Ferrisiana as a replacement name because he thought the existence of the mollusk genus Ferrissia meant Ferrisia was an invalid junior homonym.

In the 1960s, Harold and Emily R. Morrison[3] and Howard L. McKenzie[4][5] showed that the International Code of Zoological Nomenclature says the difference of one letter is enough to distinguish genera names, making Ferrisia the valid name for the genus.

[2] In 2012, M. B. Kaydan and P. J. Kullan circumscribed a new genus Pseudoferrisia for the species previously known as Ferrisia floridana.

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