Valid Names Results

Albastaspis MacGillivray, 1921 (Diaspididae)

Nomenclatural History

• Albastaspis MacGillivray 1921: 275. Type species: Mytilaspis nivea Maskell by monotypy and original designation . (= Albastaspis nivea, (Maskell, 1895) ) accepted valid name
• Albataspis MacGillivray 1921: 290, 475;. . misspelling of genus name
• Poliaspis Lindinger 1937: 178;. . incorrect synonymy (discovered by Ferris1941: 11)
• Anzaspis Henderson 2011: 57-75. Type species: Mytilaspis cordylinidis Maskell . (= Anzaspis cordylinidis, (Maskell, 1879) ) junior synonym

Remarks

• Systematics: Subfamily DIASPIDINAE Tribe DIASPIDINI Subtribe FIORINIINA (Normark, et al., 2019) Albastaspis is related to Fusilaspis (=Pseudaulacaspis) and Pinnaspis (MacGillivray, 1921). The genus Anzaspis was proposed for 2 endemic New Zealand species, Anzaspis cordylinidis (Maskell) and A. gahniae together with the Australasian A. angusta (Green). They belong in the Australasian clade of taxa previously placed in Chionaspis and Pseudaulacaspis. Takagi’s (1985) discussion of the defining characters to separate Chionaspis and Pseudaulacaspis stated that females of Chionaspis species are "never with a pair of remarkable setae arising from their (L1) inner bases (though there may be recognised a pair of minute setae." This feature qualifies these species for inclusion in Chionaspis sensu Takagi, rather than within Pseudaulacaspis, the females of the latter defined as having a pair of noticeable setae between the median lobes (Takagi, 1985). However, molecular data (Wei, Normark & Normark, 2026) determined that Anzaspis was a synonym of Albastaspis. They further described Albastaspis as distinguished from Poliaspis and Laingaspis by the absence of supernumerary groups of perivulvar pores on abdominal segment V (present in Poliaspis and Laingaspis); from Trichomytilis by the absence of greatly enlarged marginal gland spines subtended by ducts nearly as large as the marginal macroducts (present in Trichomytilus); from Serenaspis by the separate and divergent inner margins of L1 (nearly appressed and parallel in Serenaspis); and from the introduced genus Fiorinia by the secretion of a scale cover (Fiorinia pupillarial).
• Structure: Adult female not pupillarial. Scale cover white, long pyriform or suborbicular; exuviae terminal. Slide-mounted adult female body shape varied; fusiform, oval or elongate; usually broadest at metathorax or abdominal segment I; mesothorax, metathorax, and abdominal segments I–III produced laterally. (Wei, Normark & Normark, 2026)
• General Remarks: Detailed description and illustrations of the synonym, Anzaspis in Henderson, 2011, and redescription and illustration of Albastaspis in Normark, et al. 2026.

Keys

• Hender2011: pp.44-45 ( Adult (F) ) [Key to Genera of Diaspididae in New Zealand] Key as: Anzaspis
• MacGil1921: pp.275 ( Adult (F) ) [Key to genera of Lepidosaphini]

Associated References

• Borchs1966: catalog, pp. 128
• Ferris1936a: taxonomy, pp. 20
• Ferris1938: taxonomy, pp. 45
• Ferris1941f: illustration, taxonomy, pp. 11, 13
• Hall1946a: taxonomy, pp. 519
• Hender2011: description, distribution, illustration, structure, taxonomy, pp. 7,10,14,17,23,45,57-
• LagowsHo2012: taxonomy, pp. 61-66
• Lindin1937: taxonomy, pp. 178
• MacGil1921: description, pp. 275, 290
• MorrisMo1966: taxonomy, pp. 5
• NormarOkMo2019: taxonomy, pp. 42, 52, 67
• NormarOkMo2019: taxonomy, pp. 52, 71
• WeiNoNo2026: description, diagnosis, distribution, illustration, structure, taxonomy, pp. 39-40

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