Valid Names Results

Aonidiella simplex (Grandpré & Charmoy, 1899) (Diaspididae: Aonidiella)

Aspidiotus aloes simplex Grandpré & Charmoy 1899: 20. Type data: MAURITIUS: on Furcraea gigantea.. Syntypes, unknown, accepted valid name Notes: According to Mamet (1941), the type material is lost but E.E. Green’s material at The Natural History Museum, London, U.K. is probably part of the original material. (Williams, 2017)
Aspidiotus hederae simplex Grandpré & Charmoy, 1899; Fernald 1903b: 264. change of combination and rank
Aspidiotus andersoni Laing 1929a: 489. Type data: KENYA: on an unknown host plant; collected by T.J. Anderson.. Holotype, female, Type depository: London: The Natural History Museum, England, UK; junior synonym (discovered by Borchs1966, 298). Illustr.
Aonidiella andersoni (Laing, 1929); McKenzie 1938: 6. change of combination
Hemiberlesia simplex (Grandpré & Charmoy, 1899); Mamet 1941: 25. Type depository: Madrid: Museo Nacional de Ciencias Naturales, Spain; change of combination
Aonidiella simplex (Grandpré & Charmoy, 1899); Balachowsky 1958b: 224. change of combination

Families: 5 | Genera: 6

Countries: 3

Systematics: Balachowsky (1956: 28) suggested that the features of Aspidiotus andersoni Laing, 1929 were identical with those of Aonidiella orientalis (Newstead), differing from the latter only in the absence of perivulvar pores. Later, Balachowsky (1958b: 224) concluded, following a study of type material, that Aspidiotus andersoni was a synonym of Aspidiotus aloes simplex (Grandpre & Charmoy, 1899: 20). Balachowsky (1958b: 224) re-iterated that Aonidiella simplex (Grandpre & Charmoy, 1899) was a viviparous form of Aonidiella orientalis (Newstead), but interpreted each of them as a distinct species.
Structure: Scale of the female of Aspidiotus aloes simplex convex, white greyish; exuviae central, brown-reddish or yellow (Charmoy, 1899). Scale of the female of the synonym Aspidiotus andersoni subcircular, greyish white; exuviae subcentral, very dark, almost a reddish brown; diameter 1.2 mm (Laing, 1929a).
General Remarks: Description and illustration of adult female by Laing (1929a) (as A. andersoni, McKenzie (1938), Balachowsky (1956) (as A. andersoni and by Tang (1984).