Genus Eulecanium Cockerell, 1893

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Genus Eulecanium Cockerell, 1893

Eulecanium Cockerell, T.D.A. 1893. Notes on Lecanium, with a list of the West Indian species. Transactions of the American Entomological Society 20: 49-56 [54].
Type species:
Lecanium tiliae Linnaeus, 1758 by original designation (Type designation confirmed by (International Commission on Zoological Nomenclature, 1985)).
Lecanium Burmeister, H. 1835. Scharlachlause. Schildläuse. Coccina. (Gallinsecta 1). pp. 61-83 in Burmeister, H. (ed.). Handbuch der Entomologie. Berlin : T.F. Inslin Vol. 2(1). [69] [nom. nud., see International Commission on Zoological Nomenclature 1985. Opinion 1303. Coccus Linnaeus, 1758 and Parthenolecanium Sulc, 1908 (Insecta, Hemiptera, Homoptera): type species designated. Bulletin of Zoological Nomenclature 42: 139–141 (139)].
Secondary source:
International Commission on Zoological Nomenclature 1985. Opinion 1303. Coccus Linnaeus, 1758 and Parthenolecanium Sulc, 1908 (Insecta, Hemiptera, Homoptera): type species designated. Bulletin of Zoological Nomenclature 42: 139-141.
Globulicoccus Lindinger, L. 1907. Fränkische Cocciden. Entomologische Blätter 3: 113-117, 136-139 [138] [introduced as a subgenus of Lecanium].
Type species:
Coccus fuscus Gmelin, 1790 by original designation.
Sphaerolecanium Leonardi, G. 1908. Seconda contribuzione alla conoscenza della cocciniglie Italiane. Bollettino del Laboratorio di Entomologia Agraria 'Filippo Silvestri', Portici 3: 150-191 [181] [junior homonym of Sphaerolecanium and a subjective synonym of Eulecanium Cockerell].
Type species:
Lecanium emerici Planchon, 1864 by original designation.

Taxonomic Decision for Synonymy

Silvestri, F. 1920. Appendice. In, Leonardi, G. (ed.). Monografia delle cocciniglie Italiane. Portici : Della Torre 555 pp. [312] (synonymy of Sphaerolecanium Leonardi, 1908)

ID Keys

(Granara de Willink, M.C., 1999) [25] (female; Argentina); (Kosztarab, M., 1996) [345] (female; northeastern North America); (Kosztarab, M., 1996) [345] (female; northeastern North America); (Tang, F.T., 1991) [156-158] (female; China); (Gill, R.J., 1988) [40] (female; USA, California); (Kosztarab, M. & Kozár, F., 1988) (female; Europe); (Tereznikova, E.M., 1981) (female; Ukraine); (Danzig, E.M., 1980) (female; USSR, Far East); (Danzig, E.M. [Dantsig], 1980) [275-276] (female; Far East Russia.); (Kawai, S., 1980) [160-162] (female; Japan); (Wang, T.C., 1980) [45] (female; China); (Kosztarab, M. & Kozár, F., 1978) (female; Europe); (Paik, W.H. (ed.), 1978) (female; Korea); (Danzig, E.M., 1967) (female; USSR, Far East); (Danzig, E.M., 1964) (female; USSR, European); (Gómez-Menor Ortega, J., 1958) [76] (female; Spain); (Borchsenius, N.S., 1957) [292, 389-392] (female; Palaearctic Region); (Borchsenius, N.S., 1950) [146-149] (female; USSR); (Gómez-Menor Ortega, J., 1937) [266-267] (female; Spain); (Leonardi, G., 1920) (female; Italy); (Cockerell, T.D.A., 1905) [200] (female; USA, Colorado)

SYSTEMATICS

Subfamily: Eulecaniinae. Tribe: Eulecaniini. The status of the genus Lecanium Burmeister has been discussed at great length by various authors, but was finally clarified when Lecanium Burmeister, Type species Coccus hesperidum Linnaeus, was placed on the Official Index of Rejected and Invalid Generic Names in Zoology with the name number 2155 under the plenary powers of the International Commission on Zoological Nomenclature, Opinion 1303. The genus Sphaerolecanium Leonardi, 1908a, was erected in July, 1908 with Chermes emerici Planchon as the Type species. Leonardi's generic name was preoccupied by Sphaerolecanium Śulc (described in February, 1908, with Type species Coccus prunastri Fonscolombe) (see Hodgson, C.J. 1994. The scale insect family Coccidae: an identification manual to genera. Wallingford, Oxon, UK : CAB International Institute of Entomology 639 pp.). Silvestri (in Leonardi, G. 1920. Monografia delle cocciniglie Italiane. Portici : Della Torre 555 pp. [312]) suggested that Sphaerolecanium Leonardi must be considered a synonym of Eulecanium and that Chermes emerici was a synonym of E. coryli now E. tiliae. Hodgson (1994a: 546) studied four slides labelled Chermes emerici, which were considered "probably Leonardi's original specimens", but could not confirm their synonymy with E. tiliae. Until the exact status of L. emerici will be established, Sphaerolecanium Leonardi is considered a synonym of Eulecanium.

GENERAL

Definition and characters by Borchsenius, N.S. 1957. Subtribe mealybugs and scales (Coccoidea). Soft scale insects Coccidae. Vol. IX. Fauna SSSR. Zoologicheskii Institut Akademii Nauk SSSR ns 66: 1–493, Hamon, A.B. & Williams, M.L. 1984. The soft scale insects of Florida (Homoptera: Coccoidea: Coccidae). In, Arthropods of Florida and Neighboring Land Areas. Gainesville : Fla. Dept. of Agric. & Consumer Serv. Div. Plant Ind. 194 pp., Kosztarab, M. & Kozár, F. 1988. Scale Insects of Central Europe. Budapest : Akadémiai Kiado 456 pp., Hodgson, C.J. 1994. The scale insect family Coccidae: an identification manual to genera. Wallingford, Oxon, UK : CAB International Institute of Entomology 639 pp., Kosztarab, M. 1996. Scale insects of Northeastern North America. Identification, biology, and distribution. Martinsburg, Virginia : Virginia Museum of Natural History 650 pp. and by Granara de Willink, M.C. 1999. [Soft scale insects of Argentina (Homoptera: Coccoidea: Coccidae)] Las cochinillas blandas de la República Argentina (Homoptera: Coccoidea: Coccidae). Contributions on Entomology, International 3(1): 1–183.