Valid Names Results

Diastolaspis Brimblecombe, 1959 (Diaspididae)

Nomenclatural History

• Diastolaspis Brimblecombe 1959: 132. Type species: Diastolaspis novata Brimblecombe by monotypy and original designation . accepted valid name

Remarks

• Systematics: Subfamily ASPIDIOTINAE Tribe AONIDIINI (Normark, et al., 2019) The genus Diastolaspis has close affinity with Pseudotargionia but differs in having long ducts, a toothed pygidial margin, absence of perispiracular disc pores associated with the anterior spiracles, contiguous median lobes and four longitudinal dense bands on the venter of the pygidium (Brimblecombe, 1959).
• General Remarks: Definition and characters by Brimblecombe (1959).

Keys

• DooleyEv2012: pp.2-3 ( Adult (F) ) [Key to the genera of armored scales in Australia similar to Protomorgania]

Associated References

• BenDovGe2003: catalog, pp. 453
• Borchs1966: catalog, pp. 239
• Brimbl1959: description, taxonomy, pp. 132
• DooleyEv2012: taxonomy, pp. 2
• MorrisMo1966: taxonomy, pp. 60
• NormarOkMo2019: taxonomy, pp. 53, 80

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