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Lepidosaphes linearis (Diaspididae: Diaspididae_incertae_sedis)

Chermes arborum linearis Geoffroy 1762: 509. unavailable name that is placed
Coccus linearis Modeer 1778: 22. Type data: FRANCE: Paris. Unknown type status, unknown, incertae sedis (discovered by MillerGiWi2003, ).
Mytilaspis linearis (Geoffroy, 1762); Targioni Tozzetti 1868: 737. change of combination
Lepidosaphes linearis (Geoffroy, 1762); Lindinger 1936: 149. change of combination

Countries: 1

Systematics: There has been much confusion over the years about both the identity and authorship of Coccus linearis Modeer. It was originally described by Geoffroy, who did not consistently use binomial nomenclature (INCZ, Opinion 228). It was Modeer, in 1778, who gave the first valid description. The author of the species has been given as Targioni Tozzetti (Borchsenius, 1966), Geoffroy (Signoret ,1870) and as Geoffroy and Modeer (Douglas, 1886). Lepidosaphes linearis has been considered a junior synonym of L. conchiformis (Gómez Menor Ortega, 1937, 1956, Borchsenius, 1966) and of L. ulmi (Lindinger, 1911, 1931 and Green, 1928). Cockerell (1894) thought that it might be a senior synonym of L. pomorum Bouché (=L. ulmi). To further confuse matters, Diaspis linearis Costa is considered a junior synonym of L. ulmi by Borchsenius (1966). Because original material is apparently lost and we are unable to determine the true identity of this species, we consider it to be an incertae sedis. Webster & Burgess (1902) recorded this species from Ohio, USA, but we consider this record to be highly dubious.