Valid Names Results

Shansiaspis sinensis Tang, 1981 (Diaspididae: Shansiaspis)

Nomenclatural History

• Shansiaspis sinensis Tang 1981: 49. Type data: CHINA: Shanxi, Taiyuan, on Salix matsudana, 10/05/1970. Syntypes, female, Type depository: Shanxi: Entomological Institute, Shanxi Agricultural University, Taigu, Shanxi, China; accepted valid name Illustr.
• Shansiaspis salicis Chen 1983: 96-97. Type data: CHINA: Ningxia, on Tamarix chinensis, ?/04/1974. Syntypes, female, Type depository: Chengdu: Plant Protection Research Institute, Sichuan Academy of Agricultural Sciences, Sichuan, China; junior synonym (discovered by Tang1986, 293). Illustr.
• Shanxiaspis sinensis; Hua 2000: 161. misspelling of genus name

Common Names

Ecological Associates

Hosts:

Families: 2 | Genera: 2

Geographic Distribution

Keys

• Chou1985: pp.359 ( Adult (F) ) [Key to species of Shansiaspis]
• Chen1983: pp.83 ( Adult (F) ) [Key to species of Shansiaspis]

Remarks

• Systematics: Shansiaspis sinensis is similar to Chionaspis trochondendri, but usually with a pair of marginal ducts instead of single in the first position (Chen, 1983).
• Structure: Adult female shuttle-shaped, with widest part usually near caudal end. Median lobes rather small, connected at the base, zygosis obscure or very small, inner margins with base part parallely backward, then diverging to the apices, indistinctly serrated, deeply sunken into caudal margin of pygidium (Chen, 1983).

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