Valid Names Results

Chionaspis tangana (Lindinger, 1910) (Diaspididae: Chionaspis)

Nomenclatural History

• Phenacaspis tangana Lindinger 1910b: 45-46. Type data: TANZANIA: Tanga, on Dracaena sp., 11/05/1906. Syntypes, female, Type depository: Hamburg: Zoologisches Institut und Zoologisches Museum, Universitat von Hamburg, Germany; accepted valid name
• Chionaspis tangana (Lindinger, 1910); Lindinger 1913: 75. change of combination
• Trichomytilus tanganus (Lindinger, 1910); Lindinger 1933a: 166. change of combination

Common Names

Ecological Associates

Hosts:

Families: 1 | Genera: 1

Geographic Distribution

Keys

• MacGil1921: pp.348 ( ) [Key to species of Phenacaspis]

Remarks

• Systematics: Takagi (1985) states that this species is "unretainable in Chionaspis", but he does not state where is should be transferred. Therefore, we are leaving it here until it is formally placed in a different genus.

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