Valid Names Results
Melanaspis Cockerell, 1897 (
Diaspididae)
Nomenclatural History
- Chrysomphalus (Melanaspis)
Cockerell
1897i: 9.
Type species: Aspidiotus obscurus Comstock
by original designation
.
accepted valid name
- Melanaspis
Cockerell, 1897;
Lindinger
1910a: 440.
by present designation
.
change in status (level)
- Pelomphala
MacGillivray
1921: 392.
Type species: Aspidiotus lilacinus Cockerell
by original designation
.
junior synonym
(discovered by Lindin1937: 192)
- Targionidea
MacGillivray
1921: 393.
Type species: Aspidiotus campylanthi Lindinger
by original designation
.
junior synonym
(discovered by NormarOkMo2019: 63)
- Melanespis
Ali
1962: 74;.
.
misspelling of genus name
- Melanasois
Borchsenius
1966: 352;.
.
misspelling of genus name
Remarks
- Systematics: Melanaspis is related to Mycetaspis but differs in the absence of the broad protuberance on cephalic margin. The lobe-associated pygidial paraphyses in Melanaspis are numerous, a character distinguishing it from Greenoidea. In Melanaspis the pygidial apex forms and obtuse angle, while in Acutaspis the apex is more acute.
The phylogeny in Schneider, et al. (2018) highlights several problematic species with questionable
boundaries. Within the Melanaspis clade, several Acutaspis species are interdigitated on the tree..However, Melanaspis was recovered to be a monophyletc genus with strong support.
- Structure: Female scale usually thick, rough, dark, matte black, brown or dark grey, and sub-circular
convex shape. Male puparium flattened oval, clearer. (Hosseininaveh, et al., 2016)
- General Remarks: Definition and characters by Ferris (1941d), Borchsenius (1950b), Lupo (1954a), Balachowsky (1951, 1958b) and by Deitz & Davidson (1986).
The analysis of Schneider, et al., 2018 recovered three independent origins of ant association in
Aspidiotini: 1. Melanaspis spp., 2. Morganella conspicua, and 3.Affirmaspis cederbergensis + Melissoaspis spp. The two ant-associated Melanaspis species are recovered as sisters with strong support.
Keys
- MoghadWa2021: pp.31-33
(
Adult (F)
)
[Genera of Diaspididae in Iran]
- HosseiNoKa2016: pp.528
(
Adult (F)
)
[Melanaspis species in the Palearctic Region]
- SmithPEvDo2012: pp.4-Mar
(
Adult (F)
)
[Key to the Aspidiotinae (Diaspididae) genera similar to the genus Chrysomphalus]
- ColonFMe1998: pp.28-32
(
Adult (F)
)
[Genera of Puerto Rico]
- Gill1997: pp.24-26
(
Adult (F)
)
[Genera of California]
- Gill1997: pp.194
(
Adult (F)
)
[Species of California]
- BlayGo1993: pp.474
(
Adult (F)
)
[Spain]
- BlayGo1993: pp.474
(
Adult (F)
)
[Spain]
- DeitzDa1986: pp.12-15
(
Adult (F)
)
[species North America]
- Chou1985: pp.319
(
Adult (F)
)
[Genera of China]
- McDani1970: pp.411
(
Adult (F)
)
[species U.S.A.: Texas]
- Beards1966: pp.502-504
(
Adult (F)
)
[Federated States of Micronesia]
- Balach1958b: pp.231
(
Adult (F)
)
[Aspidiotina of Africa]
- Ezzat1958: pp.237-239
(
Adult (F)
)
[Egypt]
- McKenz1956: pp.23
(
Adult (F)
)
[U.S.A.: California]
- Bodenh1952: pp.330
(
Adult (F)
)
[Turkey]
- Balach1951: pp.601
(
Adult (F)
)
[Mediterranean]
- Borchs1950b: pp.167
(
Adult (F)
)
[USSR]
- Ferris1942: pp.27
(
Adult (F)
)
[North America]
- Ferris1942: pp.35-38
(
Adult (F)
)
[species North America]
- Bodenh1924: pp.21
(
Adult (F)
)
[Israel]
- Brain1919: pp.198
(
Adult (F)
)
[World]
- Lindin1913: pp.65
(
Adult (F)
)
[Africa]
- Lindin1911: pp.356
(
Adult (F)
)
[Germany]
Associated References
- Balach1951:
description, taxonomy, pp. 578-579
- Balach1958b:
description, taxonomy, pp. 191-192
- Balach1959:
taxonomy, pp. 360
- BalachKa1953:
taxonomy, pp. 28
- Beards1966:
taxonomy, pp. 522
- BenDov1990h:
taxonomy, pp. 82
- BenDovGe2003:
catalog, pp. 600-601
- BlayGo1993:
description, taxonomy, pp. 614
- Bodenh1924:
taxonomy, pp. 21
- Bodenh1949:
description, taxonomy, pp. 26,37
- Bodenh1952:
taxonomy, pp. 330
- Borchs1949d:
description, taxonomy, pp. 194,234
- Borchs1950b:
description, taxonomy, pp. 167,222
- Borchs1952:
taxonomy, pp. 262
- Borchs1966:
catalog, pp. 345-346,352
- Brain1919:
taxonomy, pp. 198
- Bustsh1958:
description, taxonomy, pp. 223
- Chou1985:
description, taxonomy, pp. 323
- Cocker1897i:
description, taxonomy, pp. 9,13,31
- Cocker1899a:
taxonomy, pp. 396
- ColonFMe1998:
description, taxonomy, pp. 64-65
- Danzig1993:
description, taxonomy, pp. 237-238
- DanzigPe1998:
catalog, pp. 303
- DeitzDa1986:
description, taxonomy, pp. 10-11
- Ezzat1958:
taxonomy, pp. 239
- Fernal1903b:
pp. 285
- Ferris1937c:
taxonomy, pp. 51,52,54,55,88
- Ferris1938:
taxonomy, pp. 46
- Ferris1938a:
taxonomy, pp. 245
- Ferris1941d:
description, taxonomy, pp. 347
- Ferris1942:
taxonomy, pp. 446:27
- Ferris1943:
taxonomy, pp. 58
- Gill1997:
taxonomy, pp. 194
- HosseiNoKa2016:
description, key, taxonomy, wax glands, pp. 528
- Kawai1980:
taxonomy, pp. 206
- Koszta1996:
description, taxonomy, pp. 532-533
- Kozar1990f:
distribution, pp. 144
- Leonar1897a:
taxonomy, pp. 375
- LepageGi1942:
description, taxonomy, pp. 445
- Lindin1910:
taxonomy, pp. 440
- Lindin1911:
taxonomy, pp. 356
- Lindin1913:
taxonomy, pp. 65
- Lindin1924:
taxonomy, pp. 172
- Lindin1934c:
taxonomy, pp. 45
- Lindin1937:
taxonomy, pp. 189,192
- Lupo1954a:
description, taxonomy, pp. 34-35
- MacGil1921:
description, taxonomy, pp. 392,441-442
- McKenz1939:
taxonomy, pp. 53
- McKenz1944:
taxonomy, pp. 54
- McKenz1947:
taxonomy, pp. 32
- McKenz1950:
taxonomy, pp. 99
- McKenz1956:
taxonomy, pp. 23
- Miller1990:
taxonomy, pp. 169-178
- MillerDe2018:
history, pp. 7
- MoghadWa2021:
diagnosis, key, taxonomy, pp. 32, 164, 166
- MorrisMo1966:
taxonomy, pp. 118
- NormarOkMo2019:
phylogeny, taxonomy, pp. 54, 82, S1
- SchneiOkNo2018:
ant association, phylogenetics, pp. 4
- SmithPEvDo2012:
taxonomy, pp. 3-4
- Tao1999:
taxonomy, pp. 98
- Varshn2002:
taxonomy, pp. 32
- Willia1969a:
taxonomy, pp. 330
- Yasar1995a:
description, taxonomy, pp. 93
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