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Dentachionaspis lounsburyi (Leonardi, 1914) (Diaspididae: Dentachionaspis)

Nomenclatural History

• Dinaspis lounsburyi Leonardi 1914: 216-218. Type data: SOUTH AFRICA: Pretoria, on undetermined host. Syntypes, female, Type depository: Portici: Dipartimento de Entomologia e Zoologia Agraria di Portici, Universita di Napoli Federico II, Italy; accepted valid name Illustr.
• Chionaspis capensis Newstead 1917: 378. Type data: SOUTH AFRICA: Pretoria, on Acacia sp., 1914, by de Charmoy. Syntypes, female, Type depository: London: The Natural History Museum, England, UK; junior synonym (discovered by Hall1946a, 512).
• Chionaspis (Dinaspis) lounsburyi (Leonardi, 1914); Brain 1920: 101. change of combination
• Dentachionaspis capensis (Newstead, 1917); MacGillivray 1921: 358. change of combination
• Chionaspis braini Lindinger 1931a: 43. replacement name that is unjustified Notes: Lindinger (1931a) properly proposed the replacement name Chionaspis braini for Chionaspis lounsburyi Leonardi 1914. However, it would appear that no other author treated this name except as a junior synonym of D. lounsburyi. According to the ICZN, Fourth Edition, Article 59.3 "a junior secondary homonym replaced before 1961 is permanently invalid unless the substitute name is not in use and the relevant taxa are no longer considered congeneric, in which case the junior homonym is not to be rejected on grounds of that replacement." Therefore, we retain lounsburyi as the senior name and braini as a junior synonym.
• Dentachionaspis lounsburyi (Leonardi, 1914); Hall 1946a: 513, 550. change of combination

Common Names

Ecological Associates

Hosts:

Families: 2 | Genera: 2

Geographic Distribution

Keys

• Hall1946a: pp.513 ( Adult (F) ) [Key to species of Dentachionaspis]
• Maleno1916b: pp.193 ( Adult (F) ) [Key to Dinaspis] Key as: Dinaspis lounsburyi

Remarks

• Structure: Female scale white, first exuviae bronze to bronze-brown; second exuviae brown, slightly pointed behind. Scale of adult female about 2 mm long, elongate, generally straight, but varying in shape according to the position on the plant, condition of crowding etc. Puparium of male about 0.8 mm long, white, non-carinated, with orange pellicles (Brain, 1920).
• Biology: Adult female viviparous (Brain, 1920).
• General Remarks: Best description and illustration by Leonardi (1914).

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