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Chlidaspis Borchsenius, 1949 (Diaspididae)

Chlidaspis Borchsenius 1949c: 736. Type species: Phenacaspis prunorum Borchsenius by monotypy and original designation . (= Chlidaspis asiatica, Archangelskaya ) accepted valid name

Systematics: Subfamily DIASPIDINAE Tribe DIASPIDINI Subtribe FIORINIINA (Normark, et al., 2019) Borchsenius (1949) erected this genus for Phenacaspis prunorum. Balachowsky (1954e) referred both Chionaspis asiatica and Phenacaspis prunorum to Tecaspis, suppressing Chlidaspis as a synonym of Tecaspis. Danzig (1993) united C. asiatica and P. prunorum in one species, and referred it to Neochionaspis. Thus Chlidaspis was suppressed as a synonym of Neochionaspis. However, since asiatica does not appear to be closely related to the type species of Neochionaspis (N. kirgisica) Takagi & Verma (2001) consider Chlidaspis to be a valid genus.
Structure: Female scale pear-shaped, white; 2 larval exuviae, successively projecting from the narrower, cephalic end of the scale. Scale 1.6 mm long. Adult female body nearly regularly oval. Pygidium with 2 or 3 pairs of lobes; 1st pair of lobes in a deep pygidial depression, 2nd and 3rd pairs of lobes bifurcate; pectinae of the pygidium seta-like; dorsal glands arranged in groups along the margin of the pygidium and in oblique rows elsewhere (Borchsenius, 1949c).