Takagi, S. 2019 A Revision of the sugarcane scale insect Aspidiotus glomeratus Green, with descriptions of a new genus and a new species (Sternorrhyncha: Coccoidea: Diaspididae). Insecta Matsumurana (New Series) 75: 81–94
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Notes: Aspidiotus (Targionia) glomeratus Green, 1903, a pest of sugarcane in the Indian Subcontinent and currently known under the name Melanaspis glomerata, is revised on the basis of two samples collected in lowland Nepal and India. A new genus, Gannaspis, is proposed for it and another species, G. miscanthi, n.sp., which occurs in the Ryûkyû Islands, Japan, on Miscanthus sinensis. Melanaspis inopinata (Leonardi, 1913) was collected in northwestern India on Pistacia khinjuk, and is adopted for a comparison with the Gannaspis species. It is compared also with the description of Melanaspis pistaciae Hosseininaveh et al., 2016, a closely similar form occurring in Iran. Notes are made on Melanaspis nothofagi Hardy and Williams, 2018, described from New Caledonia.
