Valid Names Results

Bantudiaspis Hall, 1941 (Diaspididae)

Nomenclatural History

• Bantudiaspis Hall 1941: 225. Type species: Howardia loranthi Hall by original designation . accepted valid name

Remarks

• Systematics: Subfamily DIASPIDINAE Tribe DIASPIDINI Subtribe DIASPIDINA (Normark, et al., 2019) Bantudiaspis has some affinity to Furcadiaspis, from which it differs in the nature of the pygidial gland spines and the chitinous bar joining the bases of the median lobes, also, in the nature of the median lobes and the absence of lateral lobes (Hall, 1941). It is also close to Diaspis from which it differs by having the 2nd and 3rd lobes very reduced and in the shape of gland spines (Munting, 1973).

Keys

• Hall1946a: pp.542 ( Adult (F) ) [Key for the separation of the genera of Diaspidini recorded from the Ethiopian Region]

Associated References

• Balach1954e: distribution, taxonomy, pp. 213
• Borchs1966: catalog, taxonomy, pp. 165
• Hall1941: description, distribution, taxonomy, pp. 225-226
• Hall1946a: distribution, taxonomy, pp. 504, 506-507, 542, 5
• MorrisMo1966: taxonomy, pp. 22
• Muntin1973: taxonomy, pp. 13
• NormarOkMo2019: taxonomy, pp. 52, 66

2 Species