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Pseudodiaspis Cockerell, 1897 (Diaspididae)

Aspidiotus (Pseudodiaspis) Cockerell 1897i: 21. Type species: Aspidiotus larreae Cockerell by monotypy . accepted valid name
Pseudodiaspis Cockerell, 1897; Ferris 1919a: 52. . change in status (level)
Pseudodiospis Lindinger 1957: 547;. . misspelling of genus name

Systematics: Subfamily DIASPIDINAE Tribe DIASPIDINI Subtribe DIASPIDINA (Normark, et al., 2019) Pseudodiaspis is peculiar to North America and as far as known, characteristic of southwestern United States and Mexico (Ferris, 1937). Lindinger (1957) erroneously considered Pseudodiaspis to be a senior synonym of Situlaspis.
Structure: Diaspine referable by the character of the tubular ducts to the Diaspis series; with more or less conspicuous paraphyses at the bases of the lobes, the lateral lobes not bilobed; with few dorsal ducts, not arranged in definite transverse rows; with the microducts very long and slender; with the circumgenital pores present or absent; gland spines few or lacking; the scale of female more or less circular with the exuviae subcentral, exuviae occurring by the pushing back of the ventral derm. Male scale somewhat elongate, exuviae at one end (Ferris, 1921).
General Remarks: Description by Ferris (1921).