Valid Names Results

Diaphoraspis Brimblecombe, 1957 (Diaspididae)

Nomenclatural History

• Diaphoraspis Brimblecombe 1957: 277. Type species: Diaphoraspis orbata Brimblecombe by original designation . accepted valid name

Remarks

• Systematics: Subfamily ASPIDIOTINAE Tribe AONIDIINI (Normark, et al., 2019) The genus Diaphoraspis resembles Achorophora in having a constricted thorax, possessing perispiracular disc pores, and sutures in the dorsal pygidial chitinization. It differs in the shape and arrangement of the lobes, and the duct orifices are not oblique (Brimblecombe, 1957).
• General Remarks: Definition and characters by Brimblecombe (1957).

Keys

Associated References

• BenDovGe2003: catalog, pp. 331
• Borchs1966: catalog, pp. 239
• Brimbl1957: description, taxonomy, pp. 277-279
• MorrisMo1966: taxonomy, pp. 56
• NormarOkMo2019: taxonomy, pp. 53, 79

3 Species