Valid Names Results

Salaspis Hall, 1946 (Diaspididae)

Nomenclatural History

• Salaspis Hall 1946a: 535. Type species: Chionaspis tenuidisculus Newstead by monotypy and original designation . accepted valid name

Remarks

• Systematics: Subfamily DIASPIDINAE Tribe DIASPIDINI Subtribe FIORINIINA (Normark, et al., 2019) Salaspis is closest to Ledaspis Hall. It differs in not having the median lobes definitely yoked together but in having a conspicuous marginal pore between them and several oval vacuoles medioventrally on the pygidium (Hall, 1946a).
• Structure: Body fusiform, much narrowed anteriorly, moderately sclerotized with a reticulated pattern. Anterior spiracles sunk in a definite shallow pit. Pygidium broadly rounded with 2 pairs of lobes, median lobes squat, broader than long, well separated by a shallow notch, but not yoked together basally, with one or two conspicuous marginal pores between them and a pair of minute setae but no gland spines. 2nd lobes present, duplex, but outer lobule very small and inconspicuous (Hall, 1946a).

Keys

• Hall1946a: pp.545 ( Adult (F) ) [Key for the separation of the genera of Diaspidini recorded from the Ethiopian Region]

Associated References

• Balach1954e: taxonomy, pp. 172
• Borchs1966: catalog, taxonomy, pp. 90
• Ferris1955d: taxonomy, pp. 42
• Hall1946a: description, distribution, taxonomy, pp. 535, 545
• MorrisMo1966: taxonomy, pp. 179
• NormarOkMo2019: taxonomy, pp. 52, 71

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