Genus Hemiberlesia Cockerell, 1897

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• Hemiberlesia Leonardi, G. 1898. Generi e specie di Diaspiti. Saggio di Sistematica degli Aspidiotus. Rivista di Patologia Vegetale 6: 102-134, 208-236 [105, 117] [replacement name for Aspidites Berlese & Leonardi; first actual publication of four subgeneric names proposed as new by Cockerell, T.D.A. 1897. The San José scale and its nearest allies. United States Department of Agriculture. Division of Entomology. Technical Series 6: 1–31; see also Leonardi, G. 1897. Monografia del genere Aspidiotus (Nota preventiva). Rivista di Patologia Vegetale. Firenze 5: 283–286 and Cockerell, T.D.A. in Leonardi, G. 1897. Intorno al genere Aspidiotus. Rivista di Patologia Vegetale. Firenze 5: 375].

  Type species:

   Aspidiotus rapax Comstock, 1881 by original designation.

  Secondary source:

   Cockerell, T.D.A. 1897. The San José scale and its nearest allies. United States Department of Agriculture. Division of Entomology. Technical Series 6: 1-31; Cockerell, T.D.A. in Leonardi, G. 1897. Intorno al genere Aspidiotus. Rivista di Patologia Vegetale 5: 375; Leonardi, G. 1897. Monografia del genere Aspidiotus (Nota preventiva). Rivista di Patologia Vegetale 5: 283-286.
• Aspidites Berlese, A. in Berlese, A. & Leonardi, G. 1896. Diagnosi di cocciniglie nuove. Rivista di Patologia Vegetale 4: 345-352 [349] [junior homonym of Aspidites Waagen, 1895 (Mollusca); describes eight new scale insects, redescribes one].

  Type species:

   Aspidiotus rapax Comstock, 1881 by original designation.
• Abgrallaspis Balachowsky, A.S. 1948. Les cochenilles de France, d'Europe, du nord de l'Afrique et du bassin Méditerranéen. IV. Monographie des Coccoidea, classification – Diaspidinae (première partie). Actualités Scientifiques et Industrielles 1054: 243-394.

  Type species:

   Aspidiotus cyanophylli Signoret, 1869 by original designation.

Taxonomic Decision for Synonymy

• Normark, B.B., Morse, G.E., Krewinski, A. & Okusu, A. 2014. Armored scale insects (Hemiptera: Diaspididae) of San Lorenzo National Park, Panama, with descriptions of two new species. Annals of the Entomological Society of America 107(1): 44 [Date published Jan] [44]

Distribution

States

New South Wales, Queensland, Victoria, Western Australia

IBRA and IMCRA regions

IBRA

NSW, Qld, Vic: Broken Hill Complex (BHC), Cobar Peneplain (CP), Darling Riverine Plains (DRP), Mulga Lands (ML), Nandewar (NAN), New England Tablelands (NET), NSW South Western Slopes (NSS), Riverina (RIV) ; NSW, Qld, Vic, WA: Australian Alps (AA), Avon Wheatbelt (AW), Brigalow Belt North (BBN), Brigalow Belt South (BBS), Central Mackay Coast (CMC), Cape York Peninsula (CYP), Desert Uplands (DEU), Einasleigh Uplands (EIU), Esperance Plains (ESP), Flinders (FLI), Geraldton Sandplains (GS), Jarrah Forest (JF), Mallee (MAL), Murray Darling Depression (MDD), Naracoorte Coastal Plain (NCP), NSW North Coast (NNC), Sydney Basin (SB), South East Coastal Plain (SCP), South East Corner (SEC), South Eastern Highlands (SEH), South Eastern Queensland (SEQ), Swan Coastal Plain (SWA), Victorian Midlands (VM), Victorian Volcanic Plain (VVP), Warren (WAR), Wet Tropics (WT), Yalgoo (YAL)

Other Regions

Norfolk Island terrestrial & freshwater, Torres Strait Islands terrestrial, marine & freshwater

General References

Takagi, S. 1969. Diaspididae of Taiwan based on material collected in connection with the Japan-U.S. Co-operative Science Programme, 1965 (Homoptera: Coccoidea) Part 1. Insecta Matsumurana 32: 1-110 [76-77] (as Hemiberlesia; description)

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