Valid Names Results

Cupidaspis MacGillivray, 1921 (Diaspididae)

Cupidaspis MacGillivray 1921: 312. Type species: Leucaspis cupressi Coleman by monotypy and original designation . accepted valid name
Paracupidaspis Howell & Tippins 1981: 419. Type species: Paracupidiaspis wilkeyi Howell & Tippens . junior synonym (discovered by NormarOkMo2019: 72)

Systematics: Subfamily DIASPIDINAE Tribe DIASPIDINI Subtribe CHIONASPIDINA (Normark, et al., 2019)
Cupidaspis MacGillivray was considered to be a junior synonym of Lineaspis by coccid workers including Ferris (1936a & 1937), Lindinger (1937) and Balachowsky (1954e). However, Howell & Tippins (1977a) resurrected the genus based on its lack of perivulvar pores, gland spines between median lobes and elongate setae on the antennal tubercles. Normark, et al. (2019) showed that Lineaspis and Cupidaspis are in different subtribes. Paracupidaspis was described as similar to Cupidaspis, however, Paracupidaspis "had few dorsal macroducts, not in definite rows and the second lobe is bilobed. (Cupidaspis has macroducts present in definite rows on at least one prepygidial segment and the second lobe is not bilobed.* Phylogenetic anaylsis indicates that Paracupidaspis wilkeyi was nested within other species of Cupidaspis, and it has become a junior synonym of that genus. Normark, et al., 2019 determined that Cupidaspis is now a monophyletic genus.
Structure: Adult female of Paracupidaspis with two pairs of pygidial lobes. Space between median lobes is less than the width of one lobe; median lobs reduced, much smaller than second lobes, second lobes bilobed. Antenna with 2 invaginated setae.
General Remarks: Detailed description and illustration of the junior synonym, Paracupidaspis, in Howell & Tippins, 1981

Balach1954e: taxonomy, pp. 401
Ferris1921b: taxonomy, pp. 92-93
Ferris1936a: taxonomy, pp. 19, 21, 24, 25
Ferris1937: taxonomy, pp. SI-77, SI-78
Ferris1938: taxonomy, pp. 46
HowellTi1981: description, distribution, host, illustration, structure, taxonomy, pp. 419-421
HowellTi1982: structure, taxonomy, pp. 441
Lindin1937: taxonomy, pp. 183
MacGil1921: description, taxonomy, pp. 312, 363
MorrisMo1966: taxonomy, pp. 52
NormarOkMo2019: phylogeny, radiation, taxonomy, pp. 42, 52, 71, 72, 75