Valid Names Results

Balaspis Hall, 1946 (Diaspididae)

Nomenclatural History

• Balaspis Hall 1946a: 505-506. Type species: Balaspis faurei Hall by monotypy and original designation . accepted valid name

Remarks

• Systematics: Subfamily DIASPIDINAE Tribe LEPIDOSAPHIDINI (Normark, et al., 2019) Balaspis is close to Mitulaspis MacGillivray, from which it differs in body shape, in lacking the characteristic nature of the lateral margins of the free abdominal segments, the absence of a macropore between the median lobes and the definite arrangement of the dorsal pores of the pygidium into series (Hall, 1946a).

Keys

• Hall1946a: pp.545 ( Adult (F) ) [Key for the separation of the genera of Diaspidini recorded from the Ethiopian Region]

Associated References

• Balach1954e: taxonomy, pp. 172
• Borchs1966: catalog, taxonomy, pp. 84
• BorchsWi1963: taxonomy, pp. 360
• Hall1946a: description, distribution, taxonomy, pp. 505-506, 545
• MorrisMo1966: taxonomy, pp. 22
• NormarOkMo2019: taxonomy, pp. 51, 64
• Takagi1992b: taxonomy, pp. 36

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