Valid Names Results

Annulaspis Ferris, 1938 (Diaspididae)

Nomenclatural History

• Annulaspis Ferris 1938a: 154. Type species: Annulaspis polygona Ferris by original designation . accepted valid name

Remarks

• Systematics: Subfamily DIASPIDINAE Tribe LEPIDOSAPHIDINI (Normark, et al., 2019)

  Ferris (1938a) assigned Annulaspis to the Odonaspidini, and his interpretation was accepted by McKenzie (1963) and Borchsenius (1966). Ben-Dov (1988b) concluded that the genus does not belong to the Odonaspidinae, but did not indicate a subfamily placement. Superficially the species placed in Annulaspis by Ferris (1938a) and by McKenzie (1963) resemble other Odonaspidini, in the absence of lobes and plates on the pygidial margin, but remarkably differ in the absence of crenulae on abdominal sternites. Moreover, it is evident that A. polygona and A. singularis, are not congeneric. More work is required to place them in appropriate higher level categories. Until this challenge will be met, Annulaspis is temporarily placed in the Aspidiotinae.

• General Remarks: Description and definition by Ferris (1938a, 1938b).

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Associated References

• Balach1949: taxonomy, pp. 109
• Balach1953g: taxonomy, pp. 728
• BenDov1988b: taxonomy, pp. 6
• BenDovGe2003: catalog, taxonomy, pp. 56-57
• Borchs1966: catalog, pp. 227
• Ferris1938a: description, taxonomy, pp. 154
• Ferris1938b: description, taxonomy, pp. 71,73
• Ferris1942: taxonomy, pp. 64
• McKenz1963: taxonomy, pp. 29
• MorrisMo1966: taxonomy, pp. 10
• NormarOkMo2019: taxonomy, pp. 51, 64

2 Species