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Albastaspis frenchi (Green, 1915) (Diaspididae: Albastaspis)

Chionaspis frenchi Green 1915d: 48-49. Type data: AUSTRALIA: Victoria, Mallee, on Eucalyptus sp., by C. French. Syntypes, female, Type depository: London: The Natural History Museum, England, UK; accepted valid name Illustr.
Duplachionaspis frenchi (Green, 1915); MacGillivray 1921: 333. change of combination
Chionaspis frenchi Green, 1915; Takagi 1985: 102. revived combination (previously published) Notes: Takagi 1985 lists this as a species of Chionaspis, but states that "its generic position is indeterminate."
Albastaspis frenchi (Green, 1915); Wei, Normark, and Normark 2026: 28. change of combination Notes: Lectotype designated in Wei, et al., 2026: 1 adult female, fifth adult female from handwritten collection data label (total of 7 adult females and 5 second-instar exuviae on 1 slide), “Chionaspis / frenchi / (TYPE) Green / on Eucalyptus leaves / Mallee, Victoria / Australia / coll. C. French 167.b”, barcode label NHMUK 010172105 (NHM).

Families: 1 | Genera: 1

Countries: 1

WeiNoNo2026: pp.30-36 ( Adult (F) ) [species of Fioriniina in Australia]
MacGil1921: pp.333 ( Adult (F) ) [Species of Duplachionaspis] Key as: Duplachionaspis frenchi

Systematics: See remarks under A. ethelae. Albastaspis frenchi differs from A. angusta in having submedial macroducts on abdominal segment VI (absent in A. angusta). Albastaspis frenchi also has a relatively narrow prothorax and head, being only about half as wide at the level of the anterior spiracles as at the body’s widest point (nearly as wide in A. angusta).
Structure: Female puparium white, pellicles reddish, broadest across the middle, rounded behind, moderately convex, 2.5-2.75 mm long. Male puparium white, flattish, very obscurely carinate, 1.5 mm long. Adult female elongate, narrowed in front, broadest across the abdominal area, lateral margins of abdominal segments moderately protuberant (Green, 1915d). Redescription in Wei, Normark & Normark (2026): Adult female not pupillarial. Scale cover “white … broadest across the middle, rounded behind, moderately convex,” with reddish exuviae (Green 1915: 48). Slide-mounted adult female (n=11) 1000–1800 μm long, 550–680 μm wide, broadest at metathorax and abdominal segment I. Body outline near fusiform, slender with the sides of the body roughly parallel, derm membranous except for pygidium.
General Remarks: Best description and illustration by Green (1915d). Detailed redescription and illustration in Wei, et al., 2026

GiraldWiDo2024: behavior, distribution, host, Dataset S4
Green1915d: description, distribution, host, illustration, taxonomy, 48-49
MacGil1921: distribution, host, taxonomy, 333
Pierce1917: economic importance, 98
WeiNoNo2026: DNA, description, diagnosis, distribution, host, illustration, key, phylogeny, taxonomy, 25, 36, 61-63