Valid Names Results

Suturaspis Lindinger, 1906 (Diaspididae)

Nomenclatural History

• Leucaspis (Suturaspis) Lindinger 1906: 26. Type species: Leucaspis pistaciae Lindinger by subsequent designation MacGil1921:268 . accepted valid name Notes: Suturaspis was proposed as a division of the "sektion" Euleucaspis of the genus Leucaspis.
• Suturaspis Lindinger, 1906; MacGillivray 1921: 264. . change in status (level)
• Salicicola Balachowsky 1953g: 882;. . incorrect synonymy (discovered by Balach1953g: 882)

Remarks

• Systematics: Subfamily ASPIDIOTINAE Tribe LEUCASPIDINI (Normark, et al., 2019) Balachowsky (1953) and Danzig (1993) synonymized Salicicola, Suturaspis and Leucaspidopsis as one genus. However, Takagi & Moghaddam (2005) recognized Suturaspis as a distinct genus because the second instar female Suturaspisare quite different in the pattern of their pygidial appendages: In Suturaspis, the lobes and plates are normal, whereas in the other two genera the lobes and plates are strongly developed and are followed by a series of sclerotized, conical processes. (Moghaddam & Watson, 2021) Suturaspis is quite distinct from Salicicola and Leucaspidopsis in the pattern of the pygidial appendages. In Suturaspis the pygidial appendages are trullae and pectinae, both of the usual types, whereas in the other two genera the appendages are strong trullae followed by a series of sclerotized, conical processes. In diaspidids, in general, congeneric species and even species of closely related genera are very similar in the second-instar females, especially in the pygidial fringe. When this eneralization is applied to the three nominal genera, Salicicola and Leucaspidopsis could be united in one genus and Suturaspis should not be so closely related to them as suggested by the similar adult females. (TakagiMo, 2005)
• Structure: Adult female pupillarial; body pyriform or elongate oval; pygidium rounded or gradually tapering. Pygidial margin with inconspicuous conical projections; plates absent. Vulva surrounded by radiating cuticular folds that cover entire ventral pygidial surface. Anus situated at base or centre of pygidium. Ducts short and narrow, present on margins and submargins of pygidium, absent from rest of body. Anterior spiracles each associated with disc pores, with or without an accessory group of ducts. Antennae each with 2−5 setae. Perivulvar pores absent. (Moghaddam & Watson, 2021) Second-instar female body variable in shape, pyriform or elongate oval; pygidium with 2 pairs of well-developed, strong lobes, or without lobes; plates present or absent. Ducts relatively numerous on both dorsum and venter of pygidial and prepygidial segments. (Moghaddam & Watson, 2021)

Keys

• MoghadWa2021: pp.31-33 ( Adult (F) ) [Genera of Diaspididae in Iran]
• Borchs1964a: pp.864 ( Adult (F) ) [Key to genera of Leucaspidini known from India]
• Bodenh1952: pp.331 ( Adult (F) ) [Key to genera of Diaspidinae]
• Borchs1950b: pp.168 ( Adult (F) ) [Key to genera of Diaspididae]

Associated References

• Balach1953g: description, distribution, taxonomy, pp. 843,882-883
• Bodenh1949: description, distribution, taxonomy, pp. 27, 45
• Bodenh1952: distribution, taxonomy, pp. 331
• Bodenh1953: description, taxonomy, pp. 55-56
• Borchs1937: distribution, taxonomy, pp. 90,94-95
• Borchs1949d: description, distribution, taxonomy, pp. 195,202-202
• Borchs1950b: description, distribution, taxonomy, pp. 168,178-179
• Borchs1964a: taxonomy, pp. 864
• Borchs1966: catalog, taxonomy, pp. 221-222
• BruesMeCa1954: taxonomy, pp. 164
• DanzigPe1998: catalog, taxonomy, pp. 352-353
• Ferris1921b: taxonomy, pp. 93
• Ferris1936a: taxonomy, pp. 23,26,86
• Ferris1937a: taxonomy, pp. 26
• Ferris1938a: taxonomy, pp. SII-152
• Lindin1906: description, taxonomy, pp. 26
• Lindin1911: taxonomy, pp. 129
• Lindin1937: taxonomy, pp. 196
• MacGil1921: taxonomy, pp. 263,264
• MoghadWa2021: diagnosis, key, pp. 33, 219
• MorrisMo1966: taxonomy, pp. 190
• NormarOkMo2019: taxonomy, pp. 53, 79

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