Subgenus Kerria (Chamberliniella) Varshney, 1987

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• Chamberliniella Varshney, R.K. 1987. New name for the preoccupied Chamberlinia Varshney (Homoptera: Tachardiidae). Oriental Insects 21: 361-362 [361] [replacement name for Kerria (Chamberlinia) Varshney, 1984].
• Chamberlinia Varshney, R.K. 1984. A review of the family Tachardiidae (Kerriidae) in the Orient (Homoptera: Coccoidea). Oriental Insects 18: 361-384 [365] [junior homonym of Chamberlinia Machado, 1951 [Myriapoda]; introduced as a subgenus of (Kerria =) Tachardia, and included in it four species].

  Type species:

   Tachardia (Tachardia) greeni Chamberlin, 1923 by original designation.

ID Keys

(Varshney, R.K., 1984) [367] (female; Oriental Region)

GENERAL

Varshney, R.K. 1984. A review of the family Tachardiidae (Kerriidae) in the Orient (Homoptera: Coccoidea). Oriental Insects. New Delhi 18: 361–384 provided characters for separating this subgenus from Kerria (Kerria).

ECONOMIC AND CONTROL

Varshney, R.K. 1984. A review of the family Tachardiidae (Kerriidae) in the Orient (Homoptera: Coccoidea). Oriental Insects. New Delhi 18: 361–384 indicated that the species belonging to this sub-genus were considered unsuitable for lac production.

General References

Sharma, K.K. & Ramani, R. 1999. An update on synoptic catalogue of lac insects (Homoptera: Tachardiidae). Journal of the Bombay Natural History Society 96(3): 438-443 [440] (taxonomy)

Varshney, R.K. 1984. A review of the family Tachardiidae (Kerriidae) in the Orient (Homoptera: Coccoidea). Oriental Insects 18: 361-384 [365-366, 384] (taxonomy, description)

Varshney, R.K. 1987. New name for the preoccupied Chamberlinia Varshney (Homoptera: Tachardiidae). Oriental Insects 21: 361-362 [361-362] (taxonomy)

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